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VIVAGASUYA
in this Introduction and the Notes at the end, used conjointly with the Glossary, will, I hope, enable even an average student to master the text thoroughly.
The title Vivagasuya means a sacred text on the matured fruit (vivāga) of acts, good and bad done in previous life. The work is accordingly divided into two parts, the Duhavivaga, fruits of bad acts, and the Suhavivaga, fruits of good acts. The bad acts, briefly stated according to the present text, consist of disobedience or disregard of any or all the rules of Jain ethics, while the good acts consist of the observance of the same. Each of these types of acts is illustrated by ten narratives. Each narrative describes two human lives of each person in some detail and his subsequent wanderings in the samsara until he attains liberation; for according to Jain belief, every bhavya soul is destined to attain liberation from samsara, sooner or later. Of the ten persons, whose lives are described in the first part of the work, eight are men and two women, and those in the second part are all men.
1. There lived in Miyaggam prince Vijaya and his consort Miyadevi. During pregnancy Miyadevi suffered terrible physical pain as well as neglect from her husband. She thought that her misfortune was due to the child in the womb, and hence tried to effect abortion, but did not succeed. When the child was born, it was nothing but a lump of flesh with cavities at the places of sense-organs. The child suffered, since birth, from a disease called Agnika, the all-consuming power of digestion, and whatever food the child consumed was soon digested and turned into pus and blood which
| SR No. | 022613 |
| Book Title | Vivag Suyam |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | P L Vaidya |
| Publisher | P L Vaidya |
| Publication Year | 1935 |
| Total Pages | 198 |
| Language | Sanskrit, English |
| Classification | Book_Devnagari, Book_English, & agam_vipakshrut |
| File Size | 12 MB |