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• **Verse 141**
**Margana/186**
I bow to the Jina, who destroys the power of the enemy, delusion, with the bow of Dharma, the string of qualities like knowledge, perception, and restraint, and the arrows of the fourteen Marganas. I call this great authority Margana, which is filled with various Antara Adhikars. ||140||
**Explanation:**
The mind is restless because the unity of right perception, right knowledge, and right conduct is the Ratna Tray (three jewels). The main enemy of the Karmas, delusion, cannot be conquered without the Ratna Tray. The power of delusion can only be weakened by the Ratna Tray. Therefore, the Dharma of the Ratna Tray is compared to a bow, because a bow is used to destroy the power of the enemy in battle. A bow has a string, which is pulled to release the arrow. The meaning of qualities is also a string. The characteristic of the soul is the quality of consciousness. Therefore, the quality of consciousness is compared to a string. The power of the enemy cannot be destroyed with just a bow without an arrow. The knowledge of the fourteen Marganas, which specifically describe the living being, strengthens faith and purifies the Ratna Tray. Therefore, the fourteen Marganas are compared to arrows. Thus, the one who has conquered the enemy of delusion with the bow of the Ratna Tray, the string of the quality of consciousness, and the arrows of the fourteen Marganas, that is, the one who has destroyed delusion with the Ratna Tray, is the true 'Jina'. By bowing to such a Jina, Shri Nemichandra Siddhanta Chakravarti has vowed to describe the Margana Maha Adhikar for the purification of the Ratna Tray and the destruction of Karmas. This Margana Maha Adhikar contains fourteen Antara Adhikars, such as motion, senses, body, etc. Therefore, this Adhikar is called Maha Adhikar.
**Etymology and Number of Marganas:**
"Those by whom or in whom the living beings are searched, are called Marganas. Such fourteen Marganas are mentioned in the Shruta Jnana." ||141||
**Special Meaning:**
What are Marganas? The fourteen Jiva Samasas, which are filled with the Anuyoga Dvaras of truth, number, etc., are called Marganas. The one by whom or in whom the living beings are searched or considered, is Margana, and it has fourteen divisions. As it is said in the Shruta Jnana or the discourse, O Bhavy! You should know it that way. After considering the living being briefly through the Gunasthana, Jiva Samasa, Paryapti, Pran, and Sanjna Pra Rupanam, now the living being will be considered in detail with five aspects through the Marganas of motion, senses, etc. The five aspects of motion, senses, etc.