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इन चार धर्मकथाओं के साथ ही यह भी बताया गया है कि जो जिन-शासन के प्रति अनुराग रखता हो, पुण्य-पाप को समझता हो, स्व-पक्ष के रहस्य को जानता हो और तप-शील से युक्त एवं भोगों में विरक्त हो उसे ही विक्षेपणी कथा कहनी चाहिए। क्योंकि स्व-पक्ष को न समझने वाले वक्ता के द्वारा पर-पक्ष का प्रतिपादन करने वाली कथाऍ सुनकर श्रोता मिथ्यात्व की ओर प्रेरित हो सकते हैं।
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Elaboration-Prashngvyakaran means questions and answers. In this sutra various things have been discussed in the questionanswer style. This Agam sutra is mainly about the mantras and miraculous capacities connected with various gods. When these mantras and special capacities are perfected by following proper procedure, information regarding good or bad is acquired. In this work there are 108 such prashnas which when asked yield this 卐 information; 108 which yield this information even without asking; and 108 which yield this information on asking as well as not asking. Besides these, it also contains details about many strange questions, other strange miraculous capacities and the divine dialogue of naag kumars and suparna kumars with ascetics.
The names of the chapters of Prashnavyakaran Sutra, listed in Sthanang Sutra vary from those given in Nandi Sutra. At present two shrutskandhas of Prashnavyakaran Sutra are available. In the first there is a unique discussion about violence, falsity, stealing, lust, and crave for possessions and in the second there is a similar discussion about ahimsa, truth, non-stealing, continence, and non-possession.
It appears that from this special work on the subject of mantras and miraculous powers, the portions dealing with the miraculous capacities have become extinct. All that is not available now
The Digambar view
According to the Digambar belief, this work contains discussions on subjects like-profit and loss, happiness and sorrow, life and death, victory and defeat, dead, destroyed, mushti, worry, name, substance, age, numbers, etc. With this are given four long stories that explicate the fundamentals. They are-
1. Akshepini katha-This refutes many dogmatic views and with new interpretation validates the six fundamental substances (dravya) and uine fundamental things (padarth).
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