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 nappabhā together with the centre world. The idea represents itself as follows the nethermost celestial regions (kappa), Sohamma and Isāna, lie on the same level above the viscous water hull, above them and beyond the viscous wind hull there follow the heavens-if we may say so--of Sanamkumāra and Mahinda, and above the latter one after thc other. Bambhaloga, Lantaga, Mahāsukka and Sahassāra 1 Following Sahassāra we have the light wind hull and an intcrspace supporting the 4 uppermost heavens of Anaya and Pānaya, Aruna and Accuya in twos each one above the other Hence, from the fact that obviously the viscous wind hull is more concave than the viscous water hull and the subsequent hulls more than the preceding ones, it follows that we come to have the spaces for the above mentioned regions By Aruna and Accuya the group of the 12 kappa ends Above them there lie first the lower, the intermediate and the upper Geveyja places each again consisting of a lower, an intermediate, and an upper part, then on one level the 5 Anuttara regions, and above the highest point of their centremost (we shall deal with the details later) the region of Isipabbhāra, the place of the Siddhas, above which the world ends. In consequence thereof, those kappa that lie on one level in twos are crescent shaped with their diameters either in the north or in the south Acc to Umāsvāti, on T 4,20, however, we never come across a side by side position, but each region lies above the preceding, i e Isāna (Aiśāna) above Sohamma (Saudharma). The Anuttara region of Savvatthasiddha measures 100,000, that of Isīpabbhārā 4, 5 mill joy in diameter The circles of the remaining have radıı of an infinite length But the Bambhaloga is considered the largest, most certainly because it includes also the so-called Black Fields and the Logantiya places ($ 134). At the same time the Bambhaloga is qualified by having the greatest curvature (urggaha-vrggahıya, Viy. 616a). This can
1 The Dig in T 4,20 again render pairs by noting Brahman and Brahmottara, Lantava and Kāpışta, Sukra and Mabāsukra, Satāra and Sahasrara
2 Than 166 b
3 That is to say at the diggaha-kandaga (scil Brahmalokasya) Viy. 616a.