Agam 15 Upang 04 Pragnapana Sutra Part 02

Author(s): Shyamacharya, Punyavijay, Dalsukh Malvania, Amrutlal Bhojak
Publisher: Mahavir Jain Vidyalay

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CHAPTER XXXVI
ON SAMUDGHĀTA1
Satkhandagama contains no independent discussion about samudghata. Prajñāpanä, having enumerated seven types of samudghätä, informs us as to which of them is possible in this or that from among 24 classes of living beings. But Satkhanḍāgama neither enumerates nor discusses them. In its account of märgaṇādvāras there occurs the discussion about kṣetra2 and sparsa. And it discusses them from the standpoint of samudghata. There too it yields general information about samudghata; it does not contain information about particular types of samudghata (Book VII, p. 299, 369). Moreover, it occasionally refers to the three types of samudghata, viz. 'veyanasamugghāda, 3maranamtiyasamugghäda,' kevalisamugghāda.' (Book XII, p. 498, 499, 506, 507).
The present chapter of Prajñāpană classifies samudghatas into the following seven types: (1) vedanāsamudghata (2) kaşayasamudghāta (3) maranasamudghata (4) vaikriyasamudghata (5) taijasasamudghata (6) ahārakasamudgāta (7) kevalisamudghata (2085, 2086). But no definition of samudghata is formulated here. Again, it enumerates four sub-types of kaṣayasamudghata, viz. krodhasamudghata, mana-samudghata, māyā-samudghata, lobha-samudghāta (2133). A common term 'samudghatas-possible-in-non-omniscient (chadmastha) beings' is given to the first six types (2147). We are told as to which of these six types are possible in this or that from among 24 classes (2148-52).
Ac. Malayagiri defines samudghata as the process through which soul becomes one with the fruits of vedana, etc., the fruits being in the form of experiences. This means that samudghata is nothing but expulsion (nirjara) of very many particles of the karmas of one particular type, causing their early rise through the special process of udirana; this necessarily involves the previous refrainment from the experience of the fruits of the karmas of all other types (Commentary folio 559).
1. Sthänänga-Samavāyānga, pp. 388-89; Bhagavati 2.2; Bhagavatisāra, pp. 92-95. For the description of kevalisamudghata, refer to Viseşävśyakabhäşya 3641.
2. Similar discussion occurs in Sthanapada of Prajñāpanā, sū. 148 ff. It is elaborate.
3. For the exposition of maraṇāntika-samudghata pertaining to taijasa and kärmaṇa bodies refer to sū. 1545-52.