Agam 05 Ang 05 Study Of Bhagvati Vyakhya Prajnapti Sutra

Author(s): Suzuko Ohira
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad

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coming in contact with three dharmastikaya prade'sas and the maximum capacity with six dharmastikaya prade's as. However, when it comes in contact with a different astikaya, one more prade'sa should be added to the above formulae, because this dharmastikaya pradesa itself must come in contact with the other. In other words, one dharmastikaya pradesa has the minimum capacity of contacting with four (3+1) adharmastikaya pradesas, and the maximum capacity with seven (6+1) adharmastikaya prade'sas.
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Similar calculation is made as to the other astikayas. Thus two pudgalastikaya pradesas can contact with six (4+2) dharmastikaya prade's as at minimum and with twelve (10+2) dharmastikaya prade'sas at maximum; three pudgalastikaya pradesas can do so with a minimum of eight (5+3) dharmastikaya prade'sas and a maximum of seventeen (14+3) dharmastikaya prade'sas, and so on. Such a consideration, which exhibits plethora of the then Jaina authors' theoretical exercise, does not mean much in the context of the theorem itself. This sutra group falls, without going to say, in the fifth canonical stage.
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A catalogue of heavy, light, heavy-light and neither-heavy-nor-light is made in 1.9.73 on the basis of the items listed in 1.6.53, gathas (cf. A-1-1), which include the cosmographic divisions, astikayas-cum-addhasamaya and the characteristic qualities of jivas such as jnana and darsana. Heavy-light constitute two subdivisions of eightfold touches, which are said to be present in a gross composite but absent in an atom, subtle composite and karma. Therefore, these two gunas are not applicable to arupi dravyas as well as to atoms, subtle composites and karma. This problem of heavy-light must have then evolved from a different line of thought.
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Since the Jainas assume that the soul ascends to Siddha'sila, it ought to be of a light nature. (It should be remembered here that the Sankhyas consider lightness as the nature of sattva and heavyness as that of tamas.) And if a liberated soul is postulated to reach the end of loka within a moment, akasastikaya ought to be heavier than the soul. Akasastikaya cannot be qualified as heavy, therefore it has to be neither-heavy-nor-light (agurulaghu), and likewise with dharma-adharma. Then there are things which do not belong to the classes of guru, laghu and agurulaghu, and that must be categorized as gurulaghu as so demonstrated in the Bhagavati 1.9.73 on the basis of a relative comparison between one item and another. The category of guru, laghu, gurulaghu and agurulaghu thus came to be applied to any kind of object. Our text must belong to the fifth canonical stage.
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Agurulaghu nama karma must have also been derived in this context. Soon