Dravya Samgraha

Author(s): Nalini Balbir
Publisher: Hindi Granth Karyalay

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Devoid of karmas, possessed of the eight qualities,' slightly less than the final body, the Perfect souls are located at the top of the world, they are eternal, possessed of rise and fall.
अज्जीवो पुण णेओ पुग्गल धम्मो अधम्म आयासं कालो पुग्गल मुत्तो रूवादिगुणो अमुत्ति सेसा दु॥१५॥ a-jjīvo puņa ņeo puggala dhammo adhamma āyāsam kālo puggala mutto rūvādi-guņo a-mutti sesā du.
Now, as non sentient should be known: matter, media of rest and motion, space (and) time. Matter, having qualities such as form, is corporeal, but the remaining ones are formless.
सद्दो बंधो सुहुमो थूलो संठाण भेद तम छाया। उज्जोदादवसहिया पुग्गलदव्वस्स पज्जाया॥१६॥ saddo bandho suhumo thūlo santhāņa bheda tama chāyā
ujjodādava-sahiyā puggala-davvassa pajjāyā.
Sound, bondage, subtle(ness), gross(ness)", physical structure, division, darkness, shadow, together with brightness and heat (are) the modes of the matter substance.
गइपरिणयाण धम्मो पुग्गलजीवाण गमणसहयारी। तोयं जह मच्छाणं अच्छंता णेव सो णेई॥१७॥ gai-pariņayāņa dhammo puggala-jīvāņa gamaņa-sahayārī toyam jaha macchāņam; acchantā ņeva so ņei.
These are, in infinite degree: 1) jñāna, knowledge, 2) darśana, vision, 3) sukha, bliss, 4) vīrya, energy, 5) sūksma, fineness, 6) avagāha, interpenetrability, 7) agurulaghu, neither heavy nor light, 8) avyābādha, total absence of disturbance. 10 "The words rūpa, murta and mūrti are all mutually synonymous", p. 181 in Dixit 1974. "Adjectives are used in the text in these two cases instead of abstract nouns, as is usual.
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