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NandiSootra
Shashvat, prayogaj and vishrasa - The substances like dharmastikaya (medium of motion or mobility) are shashvat (eternal or perpetual), things like pot and plank are prayogaj (made), and situations like crimson of the dusk are vishrasa (natural).
The meanings of terms aaghvijjanti, etc. are
Aaghvijjanti - To state ordinarily and specifically.Pannavijjanti - To state by revealing differences in names, etc. Paroovijjanti - To elaborate a subject.
Dansijjanti - To express an idea with the help of metaphors and analogies. Nidansijjanti - To explain a thing with the help of cause and example.
Uvadansijjanti - To state in an easy discourse style so that it is easily understood by all.
In Acharang Sutra all these six styles of expression have been used to describe the fundamentals.
Acharang Sutra is mainly in prose. Only at few places verses have been used. The name of its seventh chapter, which is extinct, is Maha Parijna. The ninth chapter titled Upadhan contains the touching details of the monsoon stays Bhagavan Mahavir spent in remote areas inhabited by aborigines. In the second shrutskandh (part) there are sixteen chapters containing the properly classified and detailed description of faultless conduct of an ascetic. The story of life of Bhagavan Mahavir in greater details has also been included. The language of this part is easier as compared with the first shrutskandha (part).
It is believed that reading Acharang Sutra removes ignorance. By following the codes of conduct mentioned in Acharang Sutra, the soul becomes the embodiment of knowledge and progresses towards the path of liberation.
2. SUTRAKRITANG SUTRA [140] MEANING - Question - What is this Sutrakritang?
Answer - Sutrakritang informs about lok (inhabited space), alok (un-inhabited space or the space beyond), and lokalok (inhabited and un-inhabited space) and jiva (being), ajiya (non-being or matter) and jivaajiva (being and matter). With this is given sva-mat (own view or Jain view), par-mat (other's view) and sva-par-mat (own and other's views).
In Sutrakritang the Jain principles have been established by systematically refuting the combined precepts of 363 charlatans including 180 Kriyavadis, 84 Akriyavadis, 67 Ajnanavadis, and 32 Vinayavadis.
Sutrakritang has limited readings (lessons, compilations, editions). It has countable Anuyogadwar, countable verses, countable couplets, countable niryukti (parsing), and countable pratipattis.
This Sutrakritang is second among the Angas. It has two shrutskandha (parts), 23 chapters, 33 uddeshan kaal, and 33 samuddeshan kaal. Measured in pad (sentence units) it has thirty six thousand pad. It has countable alphabets, infinite gum (meanings and infinite paryaya (variations). It has descriptions of limited number of mobile beings, and infinite immobile beings. Established with the help of shashvat (eternal or fundamental), krit (created or experimented) and natural evidences, the tenets of the Jina have been stated (akhyayita), propagated (prajnapit), detailed (prarupit), explained (with the help of metaphors) (darshit), clarified (with the help of examples) (nidarshit), and simplified (with the help of discourse style) (upadarshit).
Aagam- 44 - Nandi Sootra
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Compiled by- Deepratnasagar
