Jain Journal 2006 01

SR No.: 520161
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication
Publication Year: 2006
Total Pages: 50
Language: English
Classification: Magazine, India_Jain Journal, & India
File Size: 3 MB

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Rajjan Kumar: Paryaya: Doctrine of Pariņāma
clarifies that gunas are eternal and permanent which paryāya cannot continue to exist permanently in a Dravya as guņas exist. In view of Vidyananda gunas inhere or exist permanently in a Dravya. Paryāyas, on the other hand, inhere in Dravya, but they do not exist there permanently because of being subject between guṇa and paryāya. They are respectively essential and accidental characters or potentiality and actuality in Dravya.
Paryaya and Pariņāma
In Jainism paryaya defines as bhāva (condition). The properties (dharmas) having origination and destruction or emergence and disappearance or peculiarities or particularities or states, which exist in a substance, are known to be paryāya or modes or pariņāma. The derivative meaning of paryaya is kramavartina (that which undergoes) or kramikaparivartana (change into another state in succession-spatial and temporal). In the series of substance the newer and newer modes of it rise up and fall down according to the change in space and time19.
In view of the Jainas paryaya inherent in both Dravya and guna, qualities and their substratum-substance20 and it denotes states, particularities, change or mutation etc.. They are not permanent in substance and quality. Oneness, separateness, number, figure, conjuction, and disjunction are characteristics of paryayas." In autocommentary of Tattvārthādhigamsutra it is explained that paryāya signifies another state of an object and another name attributed to an object, that is known as bhāvāntaram and attributed to one and the same object. It means that a particular name always bears a corresponding particular state of an object.
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In the Pañcāstikāyasamayasāra, Ācārya Kundakunda says that paryaya is the mode of existence of Dravya through which its triple
19. Yogasútra, III, 1366
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Uttaradhyayanasutra, 28/6
Ibid., comm..
Tattvärthasutrabhāṣya, 5/37