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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DOCTRINE OF THE JAINAS are attributed (acc. to Vay 300 a) to a number of certain specified plants. The uppala and other plants are discussed by Viy, 508 b ff., while Viy. 800 a deals with useful plants for the most part. Pannav. gives many details especially of the sāhāranāsarīra.
$107. The Lower World (ahe-loga). In the lower world there are seven regions (pudhavī, Umāsvātı gives bhūmi). Their names are Rayanappabhā (imā R, scc § 113 footnote), Sakkarappabhā, Vāluyappabhā, Pankappabhā, Dhūmappabhā, Tam(appabh)ā, and Tamatamā or, commonly, Ahcsattamā (Mahātamahprabhā) 1 This is their sequence from above to below. In between them there arc spaces of unmeasured extension, and a space of that kind scparatcs also the lowest region from the non-world (Viy. 651 b). For cach region is enveloped by hulls which, in succession, consist of viscous water, viscous winds and light wind The last and most remote is followed by an intermediate space (uvās'antara), Thân 177a,388b, comp. Viy. 152a and also Thān. 152b). Below each region these hulls are very wide: the water hull amounting to 20,000, the remaining to į joy ; to their sides, where they are ring-shaped (valaya), they are quite thin measuring 6, 4 and la joy in the Rayanappabhā, increasing evenly up to 8 6 joy. in the remaining regions and measuring 2 joy. in the Ahesattamā Beyond the light wind hull, at the sides, the world ends (loy’anta), thus the intermediate part of space lies below the regions only. The hulls of the uppermost region include the centre world and, partly, also the upper world ( $ 129).
$108 The regions are determined in respect of their depth only, but not as to their width of the latter Vıy 604 b (=Jiv. 306a) merely says that it increases downwards. The
i Other names for all seven regions are given by Thân 388b, acc to which the Bhâşya ref to T 3, I in the edition (p 90) must be partly rectified Thăn 440 also counts Isipabbhārā ( 135 ) as pudhavi
2. Any concussion of these hulls (guvie samāne) is conveyed by the water hull to the earth and causes a general earthquake (Thân 161b)
3 By entering a minute distance from above into the space below the Rāy (and naturally horizontally in the centre) we come to the centre of the world (Viy 606a) and, equally, to the centre of its three sections § 103, that of the centre world called Ruyaga ($ 58).