Tattvartha Sutra

SR No.: 006796
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Sukhlal Sanghavi, K K Dixit
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 2000
Total Pages: 596
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Tattvartha Sutra, & Tattvarth
File Size: 10 MB

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TATTVĀRTHA SŪTRA
tening him through calling out bujjhaha bujjhaha' (i.e. please understand, please understand), reside at no other place but around the fifth heaven Brahmaloka in the cardinal directions and mid-directions. Released from there they are born as human beings and attain mokșa.
Since of these gods one species each resides in the four directions, the four mid-directions and the middle-region there are nine species of them in all. Thus in north-east there resides the Lokāntika species designated sārasvata, in east that designated āditya, in south-east that designated vahni, in south that designated aruņa, in south-west that designated gardatoya, in west that designated tuşita, in north-west that designated avyābādha, in north that designated maruta and in the middle region that designated arista. These names sārasvata etc. have gained currency on the basis of those of the corresponding Vimānas. In this connection one particularity has to be further noted. Thus the original bhāșya on these two aphorisms enumerates just eight-not nine-classes of Lokāntika-gods. Likewise, the reading of aphorism current in the Digambara tradition yields the number eight, for it makes no mention of 'maruta'. Of course, the sūtra-texts' Sthānānga etc. do speak of nine classes of the gods in question; for that matter, the text Uttamacaritra speaks of even ten classes in this connection. But from all that is said above it appears that the word 'maruta’ is a later interpolation in the present aphorism. 25-26.
The Specific Peculiarity of the Gods Residing in Anuttara Vimānas :
In the heavens Vijaya etc. the gods concerned are dvicaramas—that is, such as attain mokṣa after being twice born as a human being. 27.
Of the anuttaravimānas there are five types. And the gods residing in four of them—viz. Vijaya, Vaijayanta, Jayanta and Aparājita—are dvicaramas—that is, such as attain mokṣa after being born as a human being twice at the most. The order of the process