Jaina Gem Dictionary

SR No.: 011056
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Total Pages: 161
Language: English
Classification: Dictionary
File Size: 5 MB

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Adarsana (ETC.) Slack faith. Adatta (ECT)--Not given. Addhâ Palya (787474)-Equal to innumerable
Uddhâra Palyas (q.v.) Adeśa (ETC)-(From) the standpoint of speech. Âdeya (
ECT)-Dignified and prepossessing appearance. Adhah karana (Ete: Fiu)- It is the totality of
thought-activity of the soul when it is on the point of rising from the 7th to the 8th spiritual stage. It may gain greater purity and radiance than is gained by souls which have been on the point of rising an instant or two before it; or, it may be left behind in point of purity and radiance by souls which have come to the point of rising from the 7th to the 8th stage, after it. This is called the : 4169 (adhal karana), thought. activity.
But where the souls have pure and radiant nevy thought-activity in the order in which they rise from the 7th to the 8th stage, although they begin at some intermediate point simultaneously, they may rise to. gether or slightly more or less quickly, so far as purity and radiance are considered. But those, whose entrance into the 8th stage was successive, never have the same purity and radiance at one and the same time. This is called så 47 (aparva karana), the 8th spiritual stage (9.v.)
In the 9th stage, the souls which enter it at the same instant rise cqually in purity and radiance; but those