Contribution of Jainas to Sanskrit and Prakrit Literature

Author(s): Vasantkumar Bhatt, Jitendra B Shah, Dinanath Sharma
Publisher: Kasturbhai Lalbhai Smarak Nidhi Ahmedabad

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Contribution of Jainas to Sanskrit and Prakrit Literature
belief which will vanish by the influence of right vision. A self in this gunasthāna, due to perversity of attitude, do not relish the truth just as a man suffering from fever has no taste for sugarcane". From this stage, the soul directly may attain the 4th stage i.e. Samyagdṛsti.
2. Såsvädana Samyagdṛṣṭi (Taste of right vision)
It is a halting and a transitory stage in which one may get the vision of truth simultaneously. It is likely to fall back on falsehood due to the excitement of passions.
3. Samyag-mithyādṛṣṭi (mixed attitude)
It is a mixture of true and false faith due to Samyagmithyadṛsti. On account of intensity of Kaṣāyas, one is not capable of practising the self-control. It is like a mixing of curd and tracles'. The fundamental characteristic of this stage is indifference which lasts only during the period less than forty eight minutes (muhurta).
4. Avirata Samyagdṛṣṭi (Right Belief Abstinence)
To this stage belong those beings who possess right belief and have knowledge of truth and falsity but on account of the realisation of the apratyākhyānāvaraṇa kaṣāyas are not capable of practising the self discipline, three kinds of thought activity may be noted in this stage :
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Upasama samyaktva is attained by the Upaśama, subsidence of five or seven kinds of deluding karmas.
ii. Kṣāyika Samyaktva is attained by the destruction of the seven prakṛtis. iii. Kṣayopaśama samyaktva is attained by the destruction and subsidence of sixth and the continuous operation of the seventh, i.e. Samyak-prakṛtimithyātva, right belief clouded occasionally by the slightest wrong belief. The minimum duration is less than a muhurta and maximum duration is thirty three sagaropamas.
5. Deśavirata (Partial renunciation)
Partial self-discipline or partial right conduct is adopted by the aspirant due to influence of passions. The duration is in the minimum less than a muhurtha and in the maximum somewhat less than a 'Pūrvakoți.'
6. Sarvavirata or (Pramattasamyakta) (Self-control with spiritual inertia) One has tendency to complete vows but there is lurking of pramäda. Due