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Acārānga-Bhāṣyam
Taiam Ajjhayaṇam Sīosanijjam
by Acarya Mahāprajña
Chapter III
Endurance of Cold and Hot
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तुलसी प्रज्ञा अप्रेल - जून, 2005
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Jain Education International
The title of the present chapter is 'Endurance of Cold and. Hot.' This title is meaningful because here the tolerance of cold and hot in the practice of discipline is prescribed. Etymologically cold means cold- environment, hot means hot environment. By implication the word 'cold' refers to the favorable and 'hot' the unfavorable condition. The Niryukti has related these two words to the twenty-two types of hardship. Among the hardships, woman and eulogy are 'cold', while others are 'hot'.' An alternative meaning of these two words has also been given in the Niryukti, viz. The harsh hardships are 'hot' and the mild ones 'Cold."2
PREFACE
In the Niryukti, while applying the process of linguistic analysis to 'cold' and 'hot' some varieties are mentioned such as frost, hail, snow, hail-stone, etc. as animate cold material objects; necklace etc. are inanimate ones. The clouds mixed with animate. water are mixed cold material objects. The quality of coldness in matter is an immaterial cold object. The states of the soul - karmic suppression, elimination and elimination-cum-suppression-are immaterial cold objects. Similarly in linguistic analysis of the word hot, fire is an animate hot material object, the ray of the sun is an inanimate hot material object. The luke warm or warm water that is not boiled thrice is a mixed hot material object. The hotness of the matter is an inanimate immaterial object. The state of karmic rising in the soul is animate immaterial object. Anger
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