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[being carama-śarīra, Abhay.] will attain liberation in their present existence.
Cf. also I 4 and Lehre par. 81.
4 (311b) a. In a certain sense it is predicable (vattavvam siyā) that, because of their mental blindness, beings without intellect (asannino pānā)—viz immobile beings (the five kinds of Al) and a few mobile ones (chatthā ya egaiyā tasā, according to Abhay. those that originate by coagulation: sammürchimāḥ)—have a purposeless perception (akāma-nikaraṇā veyaņā). b. Purposeless perception also exists with intelligent beings (pabhu), namely with such as are unable to 'see' (pāsittae) forms without having looked (anijjhāittānam, anavayakkhittāṇam, anāloittānam) at them from one side or another. c. Intelligent beings (pabhu), though, may also have purposive perception (pakāma-nikaraņā veyaņā) in which case they are unable to attain to or even to 'see' (pāsittae) the forms [scil. the Tīrthankaras) on the opposite shore of the ocean of samsāra, as well as unable to attain to etc. the world of the gods. * *
chatthā ya egaiyā tasā sounds like a sloka-pāda.--There is a connection with 2 above in the terms akāma and pakāma, though kāma has a somewhat different meaning here: akāma is anicchā, amanaskatva, Abhay.; "-nikarana : 'founded on ".-The line of thought (which seems to originate from a sermon) might be the following: man is either too stupid and unconcerned to have any abstract vision of his world or too concerned in that world to see beyond it.-maggao = märgatas : prşthatas, Abhay.; cf. maggo: paścāt in Hemacandra's Deśīnāmamālā vi, II. Since pasao, uddham and ahe are missing in the comm., they probably are additions.
8. CHAUMATTHA.
1(313a) The ch a um attha, ref. to I 45.
2 (313a) The soul of an elephant and that of a kunthu are [substantially] equal, ref. to Rāyap. 139b.
3 (314a) For HAMG bad karman (pāva kamma) when bound is suffering (dukkha); when annihilated it is good luck (suha).
4 (314a) HAMG have ten instincts (sannā) viz the instincts of nourishment, fear, sexual enjoyment, splendour (pariggaha
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