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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Lokatattvanirnaya by Haribhadrasuri
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elements (mentioned above). Still, persons who are ignorant look upon someone else as kartă. (108)
Only this is the world. (i.e. world under the spell of the senses.) Even the learned (wrongly) call these steps of the wolf (though these are, in reality, not
so).
(Note : Actually, these are our own designations.) (109)
Auterity is strange suffering, control is deception of enjoyment, while the Agnihotra and other works are attained too like child's play. (110)
(Anekavādi states -)
Varied are the causes as also works. Therefore, at all the three times, it is certain that there is no Karma. (111)
Here ends the Pūrvapaksa. (The author) now lays down his own side.
What Srstivādi accepts is, in reality, (laid down by him) without proper thought and it is improper. I shall now show how it lacks in logicality. (112)
If we were to accept that this world comprising of Sat and Asat, results from Sat and Asat causes, then (let it be understood that) from the earlier cause, the Sat, does not create the world and the Asat has no doer. (This is to state) that its creation is not possible through either sat or Asat. (112)
Now, it is certain that what is Asat is certainly not existent in all the three times. Here, horns of a donkey forms the illustration. The world is therefore naturally existent. (113)
The substances that have a form and that are formless-all do not either die or take to another. Those having a form or no form (aroopi) are, normally, destructive in change. (114)
If we were to accept, like Kāśyapa and Dakṣa Prajāpati, that this world takes birth, where was their own existence when there was no loka (in the beginning) ? (115)
At a time when this earth, sky etc. meet destruction, what happens to this Universe ? Where does Buddhi go ? What is the form of Avyakta (i.e. Brahmacaitanya) ? (116)
What has a form and what is formless are substances, having their own