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...[340)... CHAPTER XV
ON SENSE-ORGANS
Among the modes of a living substance or being, sense-organ is mentioned. In the list of these modes, sense-organ is mentioned prior to passions (926). But the passions are treated of first in chapter XIV and afterwords in chapter XV sense-organs are treated of. This proves that these chapters have come down to Syāmācārya through tradition and he has simply compiled and edited them in his own way. This is again corroborated by the fact that the modes, viz. leśya (mental colouration) (chapter XVII), samyaktva (right faith) (chapter XIX), upayoga (cognition) (chapter XXIX), ohi-avadhijñāna (clairvoyance) (chapter XXXIII) are treated of neither in due order, nor at one place. Some information regarding avadhijñāna is contained in the chapter on Upayoga (XXIX). Really speaking, this chapter on upayoga provides an occasion for the full treatment of avadhijñāna. In spite of this a separate chapter is devoted to its treatment. This suggests that there might have been a tradition current in the days of Arya Syāmācārya to discuss independently the topic of avadhijñāna. Hence Arya Syāmācārya might have deemed it necessary to collect data relating to avadhijñāna in an independent chapter.
In this chapter the discussion about sense-organs is divided into two sections. The first section consists of 24 dvaras (topics) and the second consists of 12 dvaras. In the very beginning of the first section 24 dvaras are pointed out (972). We are told that senseorgans are five (973). Then those 24 dvaras (topics) regarding them are discussed one by one in due order. Having completed the discussion about the first six topics from samsthāna (structure) to alpabahutva (relative numerical strength), all these six topics are again expounded keeping in view the 24 classes of living beings (983-989). After that the topics 7th (Puṭṭha-Spṛṣṭadvāra) to 9th (Viṣayadvāra) are discussed (990-992). These topics are not expounded keeping in view the 24 classes of living beings. This is so not because these topics are such as could not be discussed in connection with 24 classes of living beings but because there was, it seems, no crystallised or established tradition of discussing these topics in connection with those 24 classes.
In su. 993 we are told that the material karmas that are dissociated from the soul at the time of māraṇāntika samudghata are subtle. In other words, the material atoms that abandon the form of karma are subtle. Further it is stated that these subtle
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