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NandiSootra
Satavadi Some people believe that the source of happiness is happiness itself and the same about sorrow. As a cloth woven with white thread is white, in the same way enjoying pleasure will bring pleasure in future as well. Austerities, discipline, continence, etc. give pain to body and mind, and therefore they are the root cause of sorrow. Such believers in comforts and pleasures to the body and mind to be the sources of the ultimate happiness for a being are called satavadi.
Samucchedavadi They believe in the ephemeral nature of everything including soul and also that with death or destruction comes the final termination of their existence.
Nityavadi - They believe that everything has only one single and stable form of existence. There is no growth or decay and nodepletion or destruction. They do not consider the existence of a thing to be the consequence of some combination or coincidence. They believe in its basic eternality or fundamental stability. According to them existent and non-existent are not destroyed and created. Every particle of matter is as it was in the remote past and will remain as it is till eternity.
Na santi parlokvadi All the thinkers who deny rebirth, the other world, liberation, etc. come in this category. They deny the existence of soul; and in absence of soul merit and sin, religion and non-religion, good and bad, and this life and the next all become nonexistent. There are some who, though believe in existence of soul do not believe in spiritual development or purity of soul. Whatever happiness or sorrow one gets coincidentally in this world and during this life is all, there is nothing beyond that.
Ajnanavadi - They consider ignorance as the panacea for all sorrows. They believe that the sin of an ignorant is no sin. As a child's sins are pardonable because of his ignorance, in the same way the god pardons the ignorant for all his sins. A crime committed with knowledge deserves punishment, therefore ignorance is desirable andbest. These are said to be of 67 types.
Vinayavadi - They believe that' animals and birds, flowers and leaves, sage and ignorant, small and large, all are worth respect and worship. To consider oneself to be humbler than the humblest and to respect every one is the means to liberation. They are said to be of 32 types.
Sutrakritang Sutra has two shrutskandhs (parts). The first shrutskandh (part) has twenty three chapters and thirty three udeleshaks and second shrutskandh (part) has seven chapters and seven uddeshaks. The first shrutskandh is in verse, only sixteenth chapter has some prose. In the second shrutskandh there is both prose as well as poetry.
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Sutrakrutang Sutra has countable vachana (lessons, readings, compilations, and editions), an ituyogadwar, verses, couplets, niryukti (parsing), and prattpattts. It has descriptions of limited number of mobile beings, and infinite immobile beings. It has a total number of 36 thousand pads (sentence units).
In Sutrakrutang Sutra the precautions in alms seeking, tolerance in face of afflictions, the torture of hell beings, attributes of good ascetics, and other such topics have been discussed. Also given are the definitions of shraman, Brahman, bhikshu, nirgranth, and other such related terms, properly explained with the help of reasons, incidents, and examples. Besides this, judgment of merit and sin; the discussion between Ardrak Kumar and Goshalak; debate between Shakya bhikshu and hermits; the dialogue between Gautam Ganadhar and Udakapedhal at Nalanda and other such interesting and educating tales are also included.
Aagam- 44 -NandiSootra
~129~ Compiled by- Deepratnasagar
