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

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________________ 174 OF THE JAINAS a etc. (§ 74), that four bodies (the fiery one is missing) form four additional cases and that three mixed kinds (misa) supervene to the latter, we arrive at 15 different kinds of joga (Viy 854b). Acc. to Viy. 251b the three fundamental kinds together with the Karman are called the "working forces" (karana) The obvious question as to the metaphysical way of activity has been dealt with by Devanandin who (on T. 6, 1) denotes the yoga as vibrating (parispanda) of the soul units As to the yoga (joga) it causes substances which may become Karman to flow into the soul (T 6, 2), a process implied by the word anhaya1 (JACOBI "influence"), and accordingly it follows that speech and inward sense (a.o) are called anhaya-kārī and a.-kāra (Āyār II 92, 7; 132, 10) 2 That, however, these substances continue to stick to the soul is due to the work of passions By the ambiguous word kasaya they are, at the same time, attributed a binding power metaphorically Anger, pride, fraud and greed are denoted as passions (§ 167), and they, for their part, result from Karman (udaya, §86) Thus the circle closes Where passion is absent there the substances fail to have any possibility of sticking The freedom from passion, however, and hence the purification of the soul leading to moksa can be realized in life only by the Jain monk (or nun) That is why the bandha is twofold (V1y. 383b). it is monastic (iriyāvahiya) or profane (samparāya) We start by dealing with the former even though its basic conceptions can be discussed only in connexion with the latter By iriyavaha, -vahiyā, and also iriyā- Kappa 6,13-Than 371a understands the careful walking of a monk, but in a wider sense they also mean his conduct according to the rules The Karman bound up in such a one is of no duration worth mentioning (§ 85), JACOBI on T 6, 5 distinguishes it as "momentary Karman" from the "durative Karman " Activity acc. to the rules, so Suy II, 2, 23 3 DOCTRINE I anhaya "to flow in"-asnava derived from snu Next to it stands In Sanskrit we find asrava and (wrong) aśrava Comp HULTZSCH āsava ZDMG 72, 149 anha: Uvav § 64ff, however, does not belong to asrara (v GLASENAPP, Karman p 11), but is aśnāti 2 Panhav 1-5 are the Anhaya-dārāım 3. Expressed by Devanandın on T 6 5-Also rajas is passion, raya= kamma Than 319b

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