Samavayangasuttam

SR No.: 006941
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Ashok Kumar Singh
Publisher: B L Institute of Indology
Publication Year: 2012
Total Pages: 498
Language: English, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_English & agam_samvayang
File Size: 9 MB

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Samavāya fifteen
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Demon (Asurakumāra) gods' longevity is expounded as fifteen pit-similes. Some divinities' longevity, in the paradises Saudharma and īsāna, is expounded fifteen pit-similes. Some divinities' longevity, in the paradise Mahāśukra, is expounded fifteen ocean-similes. 15[4] जे देवा णंदं सुणंदं णंदावत्तं णंदप्पभं णंदकंतं णंदवण्णं 1°णंदलेसंजाव णंदत्तरवडेंसगं विमाणं देवत्ताए उववण्णा तेसि णं देवाणं उक्कोसेणं पण्णरस सागरोवमाइं ठिती पण्णत्ता। तेणं देवा पण्णरसण्हं अद्धमासाणं आणमंति वा पाणमंति वा ऊससंति वा नीससंति वा। तेसि णं देवाणं पण्णरसहिं वाससहस्सेहिं आहारटे समुप्पजति।
__The longevity, at the most, of gods, manifested in celestial abodes Nanda, Sunanda, Nandāvarta, Nandaprabha, Nandakānta, Nandavarņa, Nandaleśya, up to Nandottarāvatarsaka, is expounded as fifteen ocean similes. These gods breathe in or breathe forth or exhale or inhale [once] in every fifteen fortnights and feel hunger after fifteen thousand years. 15[5] अत्थेगतिया भवसिद्धिया जीवा जे पन्नरसहिं भवग्गहणेहिं सिज्झिस्संति जाव अंतं करिस्संति।
Among the souls capable of Release, the few will liberate, will annihilate [the entire miseries (free from the world cycle) in the [subsequent] fifteenth . re-births. .
19. पृ० २३२ पं० ४। णंदलेसं णंदज्झयं णंदसिंगं णंदसिटुं णंदकूडं णंदुत्तर मु०॥ 20. स्संति बुज्झिस्संति मुच्चिस्संति परिनिव्वाइस्संति सव्वदुक्खाणमंतं मु०॥
Notes Jainas had conceived two kinds of dragon head: dhruva rāhu and parva rāhu. Dhruva rāhu covers moon (with darkness) 1/ 15th part of the lunar circle per lunar day in the lunar dark half, i.e, first 1/15th part on first lunar day... fifteenth, 1/15th part on fifteenth lunar day. At the ending moments (of moonless night or new-moon day), the moon is totally covered (with darkness)1. Abhayadevasūri? also has mentioned this fact.
In the lunar bright half (dhruva) rāhu withdraws darkness from moon at the same rate i.e. 1/15th part (of the lunar circle per lunar day) from first