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 and 9 Avvāvāhal and Aggicca each with each having a retinue of 100 or, resp , 1,000 In the centre of this circle forming out of Black Fields alternating with Logantiy a abodes there lies Ritthābha whose gods (again 900 in number) are equally counted among the Logantıya.2 The qualities of all these abodes correspond with those of the Bambhaloga, and as does the latter they, too, of course rest upon the hull of viscous wind
Analogous to the Logantiya in the Bambhaloga, the Kıbbisiya gods (deva-kruviszyā Viy. 488b; Thān. 162a) in different Kappa occupy special places corresponding to their lower3 rank already expressed by its name. According to the time their lives are supposed to last they are grouped into three classes. Those of the lowest dwell in the lower region of Sohamma and Isāna, those of the middle on in that of Sanamkumāra, and the uppermost in that of Lantaga.4
§ 135 Both the position and the kind of the place representing the abode of the Siddhas are known from Uvay. 163 to 167 5 12 goy above the highest point of Savvatthasiddha measuring 10,000 joy in diameter we find the circular shaped region of Isipabbhārā 45 mill 309. wide, thus extending over it like an open umbrella Its central thickness measuring 8 joy decreases towards its edge until it is even thinner than the wing of a fly. Hence it owes its name to the small inclination of its surface Its radiance is of an immaculate white. One joy above it the world comes to an end In the uppermost part of this joyana, or, more correctly, in its last twenty-fourth, we have the place of the Siddhas ($ 187)
I The Avvābāha gods owe their name to their performing plays on the eye-lids of a man without giving him any physical trouble by doing so (Vay 653b)
2 Subodhikā p 273 (ref to Junac. 110) Here the differing forms of Aruna and Tudiya For Aruna see also ZDMG 60, 323 Both the 8 Logantiya and the Rigtha are called g deva-nikaya, Thăn 516b
3 Acc to Sthan they are untouchable as are the candāla (162b)
4 The prakiraka gods mentioned T 4, 4 do not appear in our passages 3on1 sdt io quoty 11.11
5 Pannav 13ob to 132b; Thãņ 440a, Uvay. 168 to 188-Pannav. 132b to 137b=Dev 278 to 299.