Heart of Jainism

SR No.: 011099
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Mrs Sinclair Stevenson
Publisher: Mrs Sinclair Stevenson
Publication Year: 1915
Total Pages: 365
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 29 MB

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FUNDAMENTAL TRUTHS
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resemblance between paryāpti and prāna will be noticed. A Jaina sādhu told the writer that the peculiarity of paryāpti consisted in the fact that when a jīva migrated from one life to another, it could obtain these paryāpti in the space of forty-eight minutes. Others, however, say that paryāpti and prāņa are practically identical. Some jiva have all six paryāpti, some five, and some four; but none can have less than four; if a jīva dies before it attains the number decreed for it, it is classed as Aparyāptā.
When Jiva is classified in eleven ways, to the first four x. Eleven orders of indriya are added the three subdivisions of pañćen. Classes. driya (nārakī, tiryañį and manuşya) which we have already discussed, and then to these are added the four subdivisions of demi-gods, or Deva.1 Jaina subdivide their gods into Bhavanapati, the lords of the lower parts of the earth, who are often serpents of various kinds; Vyantara, evil spirits such as ghosts, witches, goblins, &c.; Jyotişi, who live in 'planets', under which are included sun, moon, and stars; and Vaimānika, or residents of celestial worlds, which are sometimes larger and sometimes smaller than our world. The twelve ways in which Jiva can be looked at are xi.
Twelve made up of Prithvikāya, Apakāya, Teukāya, Väyukāya, da
classes. and Vanaspatikāya (i.e. the five divisions of Ekendriya), Trasakāya (the collective name for the last four indriya), and the subdivision of each of these six classes into Par. yaptā and Aparyāptā.
The thirteen ways are similarly artificially formed by xii. dividing the six Leśyā into Paryāptā and Aparyāptā and Jasses
à Thirteen adding Alesi.
In the fourteen-fold division the five orders of Indriya xiii. are divided into Paryāptā and Aparyāptā, but Ekendriya
v Fourteen
classes. are divided into two new classes : Sūkşma ekendriya and
1 It will be remembered that demi-gods were the fourth subdivision of Pañċendriya.