Tirthankar Mahavir

SR No.: 020834
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Kumarpal Desai
Publisher: Jaybhikkhu Sahitya Trust
Publication Year: 2003
Total Pages: 235
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 57 MB

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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsun Gyanmandir
Meaning of Panditamarana
Skandaka: "O venerable one! What is called panditamarana ? And what
are its types ?" Mahavira : "O Skandaka ! There are two types of panditamarana - (1)
Padopagamuna and (2) bhaktapratyakhyana. Again, there are two sub-types of padopa-gamana— (1) nirharima and (2) anitharima. Bhaktapratyakhyana too, has two sub-types -- (1) nitharima and (2) anirharima. For a monk who has voluntarily chosen to die within the confines of the monks' lodgings through padopagamana or bhaktapratyakhyana and his body is taken away from the city and cremated there, his death is called nirhatima. On the other hand, the dead body of a monk who has voluntarily chosen death through padopagamana or bhaktapratyckhyana started in woods and has died there is not taken away anywhere out of the woods and the cremation rites are performed there only. So this death is called anirharima. Padopagamana — nirharima or anirharima – is always apratikarma because in this method the aspirant receives no services from others. But bhaktapratyakhyana — nirharima or anirharima – is always sapratikarma because in this method services from others are not forbidden. Thus, those who voluntarily choose death called panditamarana are not born as infernal beings, nor do they take infinite births; they shorten their transmigratory existence."
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Universe and Non-universek
The venerable Mahavira had his halt in the city of Rajagruha. He came to know that the ascetic Roha regularly pondered over philosophical problems. Roha had some doubts in his mind about universe (loka) and non-universe (aloka), about perfected soul (siddha) and transmigratory soul (asiddha). So he politely expressed his doubts before Mahavira.
Roha
"O venerable one ! Is universe prior to non-universe ? Or, is non-universe prior to universe ? Is universe posterior to nonuniverse ? Or, is non-universe posterior to universe ?"
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