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which a tortoise, living at the bottom of a lake thickly overgrown with aquatic weeds, would have to see the full-moon through a hole made in the weeds by a chance gale in a full-moon-night (cp. 'ŚriRatnasañcaya-grantha', published by Seth Chaturbhuja Tejapāla, Hubli, V.S. 1984, p. 53, st. 119).
(27)‘mārttika' adj. ‘alolībhāva-sthiti' = 'of long standing'
(28) ‘antarmuhurtta' = somewhat less than a muhūrtta (= two ghatikā= 48 minutes ).
‘vilasati' Loc. sg. of the Part. pres.
(31) ‘naya' = 'logical stand-points', the adoption of a single one of which in viewing a problem leads to error, due to one-sidedness of judgement, while the adoption of a plurality of them is indispensible in finding the truth, according to the Jaina doctrine (cp. Tattv. I, 34 f.).
'syādvāda''= relativity of truthfulness of a statement.
(35) 'vikathā' (sanskritized 'vigahā' )= 'undesirable, idle talk' such as is forbidden from the stand-point of monastic discipline. The Sthānānga-sūtra ( IV. 2 Sūtra 282 ) discerns four types, viz., ( a) "itthí-kahā' or talk about women, (b) 'bhatta-kahā' or talk about food, (c) 'deśa-kahā' or talk about countries, and (d) 'rāyakahā' or talk about princes.
( 36 ) ‘aştabhedi-pājā' = pājā by 1. water, 2. sandal-paste, 3. flowers, 4. frank-incense, 5. light, 6. rice-grains, 7. sweetmeats, and 8. fruit, as is usually performed to this day by Mārti-pūjaka Śvetāmbaras.
2. Devakulādinātha-Stavana (2) 'sahajaṁ' = disposition.
(4) 'şat-kāyāḥ' = the six categories of living beings, viz., earth-, water-, fire-, air-, plant-bodies, and animals ( cp. Pravac., Dvāra 152, st. 989).
The pleasantness of everything in his surroundings, as described in this stanza, is one of the ‘atiśayas' of a 'Tīrthankara'
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