Agam 05 Ang 05 Study Of Bhagvati Vyakhya Prajnapti Sutra

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

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XI (Bhasa), XIX (Samyaktua), XXXI (Samyama), XXII (Kriya), XX (Antakriya) and XXXVI (Samudghata). Their cognitive aspects are treated in Chapters XV (Indriya), XXIX (Upayoga), XXX (Pasyatta), XXXI (Sanjini) and XXXI (Avadhi). In each case, questions are as a rule posed as to what the divisions and subdivisions of the topic under consideration are, by which class of beings these are possessed, what their time duration is, and what their relative numerical strength is. The corollary of all this is offered in Chapter II (Alpabahutva). These topics above pertain largely to marganasthanas and the karma theory.
The subject matter of karma is mainly handled in Chapter XXI (karma prakṛti), XXIV (karma bandhaka), XXV (karma vedaka), XXVI (Veda-bandhaka) and XXVII (Veda-vedaka). Chapter XXI which deals with karma praktis is di vided into two parts, and in it part 1 collects the earlier materials of uttara prakṛtis which are expressed in terms of anubhava phalas. Peculiar here are the subdivisions of jnanavaraniya and nama, which are unknown in the later time; also vedaniya and gotra are here recorded with their subdivisions and sub-subdivisions. Part 2 lists uttara prakṛtis nearly in the standardized form, while vedaniya and gotra retain their sub-subdivisions (which can however be easily dropped at any time.) Chapter XXIV calculates how many other müla prakṛtis can possibly be bound while a certain mula prakṛti is bound. The rest of the chapters conduct their discussions along similar lines, i.e., how many other mula prakṛtis can possibly be experienced while a certain mula prakṛti is bound (XXV), how many other mula prakṛtis can possibly be bound while a certain mula prakṛtis experienced (XXVI), and how many other mula prakṛtis can possibly be experienced while a certain mula prakṛti is experienced (XXVII). Karma prakṛtis are thus considered within the class of mula prakṛtis in relation to bandha and vedana.
This leads us to infer that XXII.2 is a later addition. The Jainas at this stage usually show all possible alternative combinations of the division-subdivisions of a certain concept if these were at all established. The Uttara XXXI which belong to the fifth canonical stage still divides nama karma into sukha-duḥkha, each of which are said to have many subdivisions following the treatment in the Prajnapana XXII.1; likewise it retains the sub-subdivisions of gotra karma. The list of uttara prakṛtis must have been thus formulated in a standardized form by the time of Umasvati.
Chapter XXII (Kriya) then poses quesions as to how many mula prakṛtis are bound while committing three types of kriya group (ie., two sets of 5 kriyas and 18 kriyas), and how many kriyas are committed while a certain mula prakṛti is bound. The peculiar features of ayur bandha (e.g., nirupakramasopakrama or uncurtailable-curtailable life span and akarṣa or the mode of grasping ayus karma) are touched upon in Chapter VI (Vyutkranti). Vedana