Page Text
________________
4. DHARNA retaining the detailed reality of a thing. It is also called PRATIPATTI, AVADHARANA, AVASTHANA, NISCHAYA, AVAGAMA OR AVABODHA.
I see the boy and nurse going along outside, this is AVAGRAHA. I wish to know more about them: This is IHA. I go and make inquiries about them, and know all kinds of details about their ages, family etc. this is APAYA. I grasp the full significance and characteristics of the details which I have gathered: this is DHARNA.
Each of the above four classes of sense knowledge has twelve sub-classes: bahu, much bahuvidha, manifold; KSHIPRA, quickly; ANISMITA, without the help of symbols or signs; ANUKTA, without being touched, DHRUVA, steady; ALPA, less; ALPAVIDHA, in few ways; AKSHIPRA, slowly, NISRITA, with help of signs; UKTA, taught; ADHURUVA, not steady.
Thus Mati Jnana is 4X 12-48 kinds and, as each kind may be acquired by five senses or the mind in all it is of 48X6-288 kinds.
Again the above distinctions apply to sense knowledge with reference to ARTHA the object itself. With reference to VYANJANA or (intermediating) sensation, sense knowledge is of only one kind, the AVAGRAHA (or preception) kind. This is never manifested in regard to the eye or the mind, therefore, it can only be of 4X 12 (the twelve classes above referred to)=48 kinds.
Thus the total kinds of sense knowledge are 288+48=336.
AVADHI JNANA or knowledge of the remote is of two kinds (1) Innate, as in the case of angels in Heaven or fallen ones in Hell; (2) acquired, by the precipitation or annihilation of karmic matter. The farmer is called BHAVA PRATYAYA and the latter KSHAYOPASAMA. This latter is acquired by men and animals and is of six kinds :
1. ANANUGAMIKA Limited to a particular locality, outside the man loses this faculty.
2. ANUGAMIKA not limited to any locality.
3. HIYAMANA knowledge of the remote comprehending innumerable worlds, seas, continents etc. becomes less and less, till it reaches the minimum.
4. Vardhamanaka, acquired from very slight beginnings, it goes on increasing. It is the converse of Hiyamana.
5. ANAVASTHITA, usteady, so that it fluctuates according to circums
tances.
Mahaveer Jayanti Smarika 77
Jain Education International
For Private & Personal Use Only
4-5
www.jainelibrary.org
| SR No. | 014023 |
| Book Title | Mahavira Jayanti Smarika 1977 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Bhanvarlal Polyaka |
| Publisher | Rajasthan Jain Sabha Jaipur |
| Publication Year | 1977 |
| Total Pages | 326 |
| Language | Hindi, English |
| Classification | Seminar & Articles |
| File Size | 25 MB |