Bhagavana Mahavira

Author(s): Chauthmal Maharaj
Publisher: Jainoday Pustak Prakashan Samiti Ratlam

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[The Seventy two Kalas
this world so that we may be able to improve our lives by decreasing ill-feelings and increasing good feelings between man and man; what were the main qualities of a man of character; what was the policy of the society and what unbearable sufferings people had to undergo at times on account of their sticking to the path of conduct. etc. etc.
(47) "LOKA-RANJANA" Art of amusing public:This art taught people how to amuse public as for example by laughing or weeping in such a way that the audience was led to believe that the amuser was actually laughing or weeping but in fact neither he laughed nor wept. He simply posed in such a way that the audience was forced to laugh or weep as he wanted, and the height of amusement came when the trick of the amuser was known to the audience. Many such other methods of recreation and amusement were adopted by the artist in order to entertain the public.
(48) "PHAL-AKARSHANA" Knowledge of gravitation of fruits: The science of gravitation and everything connected with it were taught by means of this art, as for example, why are the fruits attracted towards the ground instead of falling right, to the left or upwards? What is gravitation? What is the effect of gravitation on a thing which is far and heavy, which is heavy and near, which is light and away and which is light and near? Everything which is thrown upwards or every person who flies high in the sky has to fall or come to earth; how is it?
(49) APHALA-PHALANA Art of fecundating the barren:-The barren things were divided inte two groups (1) STHAVARA (Stationary) such as plants and creepers etc., and (2) JANGAMA (Mobile) such as man and all other living creatures. The art of fecundating taught why a certain
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