Doctrine of Jainas

SR No.: 011097
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Walther Shubring, Wolfgang Beurlen
Publisher: Motilal Banarasidas
Publication Year: 1978
Total Pages: 309
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 17 MB

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COSMOLOGY
155 (apāya or avāya) to the act of imprinting the perception in the mind (dhāranā)1. Though this sequence corresponds with Thān. 281b, 363a; Viy. 571a; Nandi 168a, it does not agree with Pannav. 15, 2. Here we find first the indiya-ogāhanā (309 a), followed by avāya, īhā and oggaha ? Thatis to say, the sequenceis just the reverse, and ogāhanā: rendered in the Prajn by avagrahana without being explained more closely, is replaced by dhāranā. The author of the Pannav takes the right to class this genesis of imagination in his chapter about the senses from their having a fundamental share in imagination. But with the oggaha this does not apply to all senses as with the other three stages. Here atth’oggaha and vanjan’oggaha are distinguished from each other, the first constituting a distinct and the latter an indistinct primary sensation towards the object. The sense of vision, however, is not capable of an indistinct primary sensation but of a distinct one only Nor is the inward sense (no-indiya, Pannav 310 a; T 1, 18 f) The reversion of the sequence in Pannav. mentioned above, is due to the fact that the figure of five determined with indiya-uvacaya, -nivvattanā and -laddh could continue to hold good with ogāhaņā, avāya and ihā, until finally with oggaha the sequence ramifies. It was a mistake, however, to maintain it for the ogāhanā etc. without adding the nb-indiya. In the Nandi (175 b ff ) this has been done, and the inward sense justly shares in the will to cognition, the act of ascertainment and the act of imprinting the perception in the mind Here, by the way, we are also told (177a, 184a) that the “primary perception” lasts only 1 sam., while ihā and avāya remain below 1 muh, whereas the dhāranā will last for any length of time
The function of the four stages of perception is the following acc to Thān 363a oggaha, ihā and avāya occur rapidly (khippa) and analogically (dhuva) in every new case, dhāranā, however, permanently (porāna) and intensively (duddhara. gahana). But all four are composed of single perceptions
1 Comp LEUMANN Übersicht p 38b 2 In print we read uggaha 3 In the Abhidhānarājendra incorrectly rendered as uggāhanā