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## 470/Go. Sa. Jivakanda
**Verse 371**
**Doubt:** If this is the case, then even in restraint, along with the five types of special restraints - Samaavik, Chhedopasthapana, Pariharavishuddhi, Sukshmasamparam, and Yathakyat - and with Desh Biraati, the occurrence of Avadhijnana is seen to be influenced. Therefore, can it not be said that the origin of Avadhijnana is due to special restraint, because the objections and refutations are the same when considering both Samyagdarshan and restraint as causes for the origin of Avadhijnana?
**Answer to the Doubt:** In countless Lokapramanas, there are many special types of results in the form of restraint that are the cause of the origin of Avadhijnana. Therefore, the aforementioned flaw is not found.
**Resolution of the Doubt:** If this is the case, then it is certain that in countless Lokapramanas, there are many special types of results in the form of Samyaktva, which are associated with other cooperative factors, that become the cause of the origin of Avadhijnana.
The Avadhijnana whose cause is... The signs by which Avadhijnana arises. The Avadhijnana that is a part of the Jiva's body is called Ekakshetra Avadhijnana. The Avadhijnana that arises from all parts of the body without a specific area is called Anekakshetra Avadhijnana. Tirthankaras, Devas, and Narakis have Anekakshetra Avadhijnana. Because they perceive their object of knowledge through all parts of their body. It is also said:
**Poraiya-Det-Tiojimjassashaatiram De.**
**Jaayenti Samvado Khalu Sesha Deshen Jaananti.** ||24||
Narakis, Devas, and Tirthankaras know through all parts of their body within their Avadhikshetra, and the remaining Jivas know through a part of their body. The remaining Jivas know only through a part of their body. This should not be done, because the Paramavadhijnani and Sarvavadhijnani Ganadharas etc. perceive their object of knowledge through all parts of their body. Therefore, it should be understood here that the remaining Jivas know through a part of their body and through all parts.
**Doubt:** Avadhijnana is only Anekakshetra, because when the simultaneous destruction and cessation of all Jivapradeshas is achieved, knowledge of external objects cannot arise from a part of the body?
**Resolution:** No, because there is no causal nature in other areas. Therefore, there is no contradiction in accepting knowledge arising from a part of the body that has been transformed by its causal nature. It is not correct to say that one knows without the destruction and cessation of the causal factors, because this belief is contradictory. It is also not correct to conclude that Ekakshetra Avadhijnana arises when the destruction and cessation of the Avadhijnaanavaran occurs in a part of the Jivapradeshas, because the Gopuccha, which has attained its rise, is the object of all Jivapradeshas. Therefore, there is a contradiction in accepting its destruction and cessation in a part of the Jiva while it is the permanent cause. It is also not correct to say that the directness of Avadhijnana is destroyed because it is dependent on the causes (signs) of its origin, because it is not dependent on them in Anekakshetra, and therefore directness exists in it.
1. P.Pu. 1 p. 365-366
2. Dh.Pu. 13 p. 265.
3. P.Pu. 13 p. 265-266.