Dravya Sangraha

SR No.: 011098
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Nemichandra Siddhant Chakravarti, Saratchandra Ghoshal
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Total Pages: 324
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, P000, & P040
File Size: 29 MB

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innumerable Pradesas.* That is to say, the Pradesas of Jiva, Dharma and Adharma are beyond calculation. Lokakâsa or the universe contains innumerable Pradesas and, as Jiva can fill up the whole of the universe by expansion, it is said to contain innumerable Pradesas, Dharma and Adharma also pervade all parts of the universe, as oil pervades the whole portion of a mustard seed. Hence these two substances also hare innumerable Pradesas. Akása is infinite, for it not only pervades the universe, but is even existent beyond it; hence its Pradeśas are infinite. The distinction between innumerable and infinite Pradesas consists in this that, while the former have a limit, though it is beyond the power of eren an omniscient being to count them, the latter is without limits.
It may be urged that, without knowing the number of the Pradeśas belonging to Âkisa, how can one become omniscient? Akalanka Bhatta has replied to this that, to be ominiscient, it is sufi. cient to know that these are innumerable.
When we say that Pradeśas of such and such a substance are innumerable, we mean that in reality these are incapable of being counted by anyone. We are not speaking this with reference to the ordinary human beings who have limited powers of perception, but with reference to all beings. Hence, it must be supposed that an omniscient being only knows that Pradeśas of such substances are innumerable. This is also the case when we speak of the infinite Pradesas. * "असंख्येयाः प्रदेशा धर्माधर्मैकजीवानाम् ।”
[तत्वार्थाधिगमसूत्रम् ५।८।] "एकस्य जीवद्रव्यस्य धर्माधर्मास्तिकाययोः । असंख्येयप्रदेशत्वमेतेषां कथितं पृथक् ॥"
. [तत्वार्थसारः । ३ । १९ । ] + “संहाराच्च विसर्पाच्च प्रदेशानां प्रदीपषत् ।
जीवस्तु तदसंख्येयभागादीनवगाहते ॥ लेोकाकाशे समस्तेऽपि धर्माधर्मास्तिकाययोः । तिलेषु तैलवत् प्राहुरवगाहं महर्षयः।"
___ [तत्वार्थसारः । ३ । १४ । २३ । ] + “संख्याविशेषातीतत्वादसंख्येयाः।" "तदनुपलब्धेर सर्वज्ञत्वप्रसंग इति चेन्न तेनात्मनावसितत्वात्।”
[ तत्वार्थराजवार्तिकम् । ५।८।१।३ ।]