Book Title: Doctrine of Jainas
Author(s): Walther Shubring, Wolfgang Beurlen
Publisher: Motilal Banarasidas

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________________ THE U VANGAS 103 years treated in 10, 20; the 6 seasons, the amaratta and 6 airatta, 1.e. missing and surplus days; the 5 solstices in a Yuga in their relation to naksatra and moon, the tenfold joga, 13. Both the waxing and the waning of the moon, full and new moon, the circles formed by her movement. 54. The bright and dark halves of the month (dosinā-pakkha and andhakāra-p.). 15. The velocity of moon, sun, planets, naksatras, stars, both relative and absolute. Circles formed by moon and sun both during 1 day and 1 month. 16. canda-lessã and dosinā, sūra-l. and āyapa, andhakāra and chāyā are homonymous pairs. 17. For the change of existence (cayanôvadāya) of the gods embodied in moons and suns there is no fixed time (25 pad. as in pāh.6), but each of these gods is bound to live his or her time as destined by his or her Karman. 18. The altitude of the stars' above the earth (§ 126) (25 pad ,) though this altitude does not concern the moral level of their resp. gods. Their attendance and the latter's distance from the Mandara. The innermost, outermost, topmost and lowest naksatra relative to the Jambuddīva (Abhiī, Mūla, Sãi, Bharani): The shape, the size, and the tractive power (vimāna) of the stargods. The velocity of the stars (as in 15), their power (iddhi), their mutual distance, their princely life, their duration, their relative number. 19. The number (12 pad.) of the stars above the human world, with 40 Gāhās mentioning Rāhu as the originator of the moon's waxing and waning, their normal course, their shape, the vacancy of a seat. The fixed stars beyond the human world. The remote ring-continents and -oceans, and the stars above them. 20. Moons and suns are powerful gods (2 pad.), and so is Rāhu (2 pad.); his 15 names, his vimāņa, his doings, his twin character as dhuva-R and pavoa-k. The names of sasi and āicca of moon and sun, their princely life. The 88 mahaggaha. Comm.: Ţikā by Malayagiri.--Ed. (along with the Tīkā),: Āg. S., Bo. 1919.-J. F. KOHL, Die Süryaprajñapti. Versuch einer Textgeschichte. Stuttgart 1937. Rev. by the AUTHOR, OLZ 1938, col. 562f.. 6. Jambuddivapannattı. A description of the Jambuddiva, 1. This includes both the moon and the sun.

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