Illuminator of Jaina Tenets

SR No.: 006924
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Tulsi Acharya
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 1985
Total Pages: 252
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

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Illuminator of Jaina Tenets
yus ceti daśavidhāḥ prāṇāḥ.
paryāptīnāṁ prāṇānāṁ ca yoga eva jīvanaṁ, teṣām viyogaś ca mrtyuḥ.
(Aph.) (They are) the sense-organs, power, respiration and lifespan. (XIII)
(Gloss) The prānas are tenfold: the five sense-organs, the three powers of mind, speech and body; the respiration; and life-span.
The combination of the bio-potentials and the bio-energies is indeed life, and their disjunction is death.
१४. गर्भोपपातसंमूर्च्छनानि जन्म ।
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ra, qfa:, a gfa qufur: 1
14. garbhopapātasaṁmurcchanāni janma. janma, utpattiḥ, bhava iti paryāyāḥ.
(Aph.) Birth can be (of three kinds according as it is) vertebrate (garbhaja), spontaneous and accomplished (upapätaja) or invertebrate (sammurcchima). (XIV)
(Gloss) Birth, origination and worldly life are synonymous.
(Note) The Jain conception of sammurcchima includes rasaja, samsvedaja and udbhijja1. The earliest classification of animals in the Brāhmaṇical literature is found in the Suśruta-samhita where the jangamas are classified as jarāyuja, andaja, svedaja and udbhijja. In the Buddhist tradition, four yonis viz. aṇḍaja, jarāyuja. samsvedaja and upapaduka are recognised. There is no yoni ascribed to the vegetable kingdom. In the Suśruta-samhita3, the vegetable kingdom is comprised under four-fold sthāvara viz. (i) vanaspati (producing fruit without flower), (ii) vrkşa (producing both flower and fruit), (iii) vīruda (creepers) and (iv) auşadhi (which die after producing fruit). In the Manusmrti4, the sthävaras are included under udbhijja unlike the Suśruta-samhita, which places indragopa (snail), manduka (frog) etc. under udbhijja.
Sammürcchima-That which is not vertebrate and not born in womb is sammu
rcchima.
१५. जराखण्डपोतजानां गर्भः ।
जरायुजाः' - नृ - गवाद्या: ।
अण्डजाः - पक्षि- सर्पाद्याः । पोतजा:'
1 Ayaro 1/118 (J.V.B.).
2 Abhidharmakosa, III/8. (p. 40 of vol. II, Bauddha Bharati Series, Varanasi) 3 Vol I, p. 7. (Choukhambha ed.).
4 1/46.
५ यज्जालवत् प्राणिपरिवरणं विततमांसशोणितं तज्जरायुः, तज्जाता जरायुजाः । ६ पोता एव जाता इति पोतजाः शुद्धप्रसवाः, न जरावादिनां वेष्टिता इति यावत् ।