Anandrushi Abhinandan Granth

Author(s): Vijaymuni Shastri, Devendramuni
Publisher: Maharashtra Sthanakwasi Jain Sangh Puna

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आयाम प्रवरुप अभिनंदन आनन्द 31
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12 Dr. N. M. Kansara
prabhasūri (V. Sam. 1327-1389), who seems to have indicated the process to Upadhyaya Subhatilaka, who has fully explored the motif in his yet unpublished work entitled the "Gayatri-vivaraṇam." The Jainistic interpretation of the Vedic Gayatri Mantra elaborated below is in the light of the above work. The mystic syllable "OM" denotes the Five Supremes (Pañca-parameşthi), viz., Arhat, Asarira (i. e. Siddha), Acarya, Upadhyaya, and Muni. The syllable OM is symbolically constituted by the conjunction of the initial vowels of the first four names, and the initial consonant of the last one; thus, A+A+A+U+M-OM,"
The body of the formulae is to be split up as follows:
OM BHUR-BHUVAH-SVAS-TAT/SAVITUR VARENYAM / BHARGODE VASI ADHIMAHI/DHIYOYO NAH PRACA UDAYAT// The syllables 'Bhah', 'Bhuvah' and 'Svah' combine to form a Dvandva compound Bhür-bhuvaḥ-svaḥ denoting the totality of the three worlds, viz., the hell, the earth, and the heaven. It is further combined with the root √tan (to spread, stretch, pervade), to form an Upapada Tatpurusa compound, viz., BHORBHUVAH-SVAS-TAT, meaning 'the one who pervades all the three worlds". This adjectival compound qualifying the mystic syllable, grammatically the substantive, Om, primarily refers to the first two of the five Supremes, viz., the Arhat and the Siddha, both of whom, being possessed of the cmniscience, are capable of fathoming all the things of the three worlds through the means of their Kevala-jñāna.35 The rest of the Supremes, viz., the Acarya, the Upadhaya, and the Muni may also be deemed to be secondarily included in this category in view of their possibility of such an attainment sometime in future, especially as they have already embarked upon the path of the former two categories of the Supremes.
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The phrase SAVITUR VARENYAM primarily qualifies the substantive 'Om and is secondarily to be construed with the adjectival compound Bharbhuvah-svas-tat. It means 'preferrable to the Sun." The five Supremes are far superior to the Sun in point of effulgence, since the light of the Supremes, being of the nature of knowledge, penetrates and pervades the whole universe, while the physical light of the Sun pervades only a part of the physical world.38
The phrase BHARGODE VASI ADHIMAHI is a construction in the locative absolute. The word Bhargode is the locative form of a Dvandva compound constituted from the words Bharga (the creator), U (the sustainer) and Da (the destroyer), thus denoting the trinity Brahma-Vism-Isvara. Vasi is the locative form of Vas meaning 'One who dwells in', i. e. 'One who is engrossed in. Adhimahi is a peculiar indeclinable in the locative. It is formulated first by constituting a Genitive Tatpurusa compound Imahl from the words (i. e., Kama) and 'Mahi' (earth, i. e., place or object), thus meaning "the objects of passions'; it is further compounded the gerund Adhikrtya (with reference to) as the initial member; the final meaning of Adhi-i-mahi is, thus, 'with reference to the objects of passions', i. e. 'so far as women are concerned.'40