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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COSMOGRAPHY
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selves are called pudhavi- etc -kālya Their number in any of their kind is į, as is the case with all beings in the Samsāra, with the only exception of the plant souls whose number is oo (Pannav. 179 a) The one-sensed beings occur both in a form so fine that no sense is able to conceive it (suhuma) and in a concrete (bāyara) shape In their fine form we find them, indifferentiated within their kinds, all over the world (savvaloya-pariyāvannaga, Pannay 71 b)
Among the plant souls or vanassaz1-kārya we also find the nigoya or noya-jīva Jambūdv. 171 a, Vy 309 a explain nigoda by kuțumba, which makes us think of nyoka(s) As mentioned above, the nigoya (V1y 889 b-Jiv 423b, Viy 764 b., Pannav 381 a) are both fine and concrete Originally, however, the name is certain to have belonged to the former (suhuma) only This is explained not so much by the word of nigoya (without an adjective) standing side by side with bāyara-11. (Pannav. 381 b) than by an objective exceptional position The above mentioned o number of plant souls goes to the debt of the fine ones among them, they alone may stay for an infinitely long time in the same form of existence, whereas the remaining fine elemental beings (to say nothing of the higher ones) can leave it, at the latest, after an indeterminably long (c), 1.e after all a measurable time (Pannav 377a, 381b). This is the so-called kāya-tthia, the uninterrupted sequence of existences having the same form ($ 93), ie existences each of which ends within one muhutta in a fine form in the elemental beings and plants regardless of either their complete or incomplete development (Pannav 171b). Hence the fine undeveloped nigoya, though it pertains to the Samsāra, yet does not take part in the up and down within it, until it starts to develop By this way it is the intellectual and actual counterpart of the Siddha (§ 101). The Canon does not supply us with any detailed information about a certain way as to how the nigoya fill up the entire world It is most probably a post-canonical conception acc. to which these nigoya
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Also vanapphai.