Agam 03 Ang 03 Sthanang Sutra Thanam Terapanth

Author(s): Tulsi Acharya, Nathmalmuni
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati

Page 65

65
in it. According to the Sangraha Naya, the Jiva is one and the same far as the soul is concerned. From the view point of the 'vyavahāra-naya' each and every Jiva is parted with, i.e. it is divided into two parts according to the knowledge and appaerance, into three parts according to the 'Karma-letna' or 'Phrowge-utpāda' and 'Vināśa', into four parts because of its wandering in the four-fold motion; into five parts from the view point of Pariņāmikādi' five states; into six parts due to the accession to the six directions, such as the East, West, North, South, up-ward and down-ward at the time of transgression to other birth; into seven parts according to the seven kinds of 'Syādasti-Syádnāsti'; into eight parts according to the eight *Karmas'; into nine parts as it changes into the aine substances; and into ten parts from the view point of the *Prithivi-Kāyika', 'Jala Kāyika', 'Agni-Käyika', 'Wāyu-Kāyika', 'Pratyeka Vanaspati-Kāyika', 'Sadhārana Vanaspati-Káyika' species having two organs, species having three organs, species having four organs, and species having five organs. Likewise, this Agama gives an account of one-ness of "Pudgala' etc. and their various Paryāyas' (modifications) counting from two to ten. From the view of 'Paryāyas', one and the same element parts with into innumerable and unlimited parts, and, from the view point of the matter (Dravya), these innumerable parts conform into one and the same element. This exposition of conformity and deformity is well found in this Agama.
Samawão The title
The Agama is the fourth part of the 'Dwädaśāngi' having the title "Samawao'. The substances, Jiva-Ajiva etc., have been put into divisions or brought down properly in this Agama, therefore, the title “Samawão'. According to the Digamber literature, this Agama speaks of similarity of the Jivadi substances therfore, called the 'Samawão'. The 'Samawao'
1. Kasayapahuda, part 1, page 123. 2. Samawao-Vrithi, patra 1,
Samit-Samyaka avetyadhikyena ayanamayah Paticchedo Jivajivadi-vividhapadartha Sarthasya yasaminnasan Samawayah Samawayanti wa, Samawasaranti Samuilanti nanawidha Atmadayo Bhawa
Bhawa abhidheya.aya Yasminnasan Samawaya iti. 3. Gommatasara Jivakanda Jiyaprabodhni Tika, gatha 356.
**Sam-Sangrahena Sadrisya-Samanyena Avayante joayante jivadipadartha dravya kalabhavan a sritya asmitnniti 'Samawayangam. Nandi, Sutra. 83