Dravya Sangraha

Author(s): Nemichandramuni
Publisher: Chandraprabha Digambar Jain Mandir Trust

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Dravy a - Sangraha
but this is mentioned in the next verse of Panchastikaya samayasara:कम्ममल विप्पमुक्को उढे लोगस्स यंतमधिगंता । i. e., "That which goes upward to the end of Loka, being freed from the impurity of karma.”
तिक्काले चदुपाणा इंदिय बलमाउ प्राणपाणो य । ववहारा सो जीवो णिच्चयणयदो दु चेदणा जस्स ॥३॥
Tikkale chandupana indiya balamau anapanao ya, Vavahara so jivo nichchayanayado du chedana jassa--(3)
Padapatha. 29ERT Vavhara, according to Vyavahara Naya. familia Tikkale, is three kinds of time. f4 Indiya, Indriya ( The senses ). pat Balam, force. 13 Au, Life.
Anapano, respiration. 4 Ya, also. 1979 Chadupanu, the four Pranas. g Du, but. fuaqu27) Nichchan yana yado, according to Nischaya Naya. 4 Jassa, whose. #CU Chedna, consciousness. So, he. 11 Jivo, Jiva.
3. According to Vyavahara Naya, that is called Jiva, which is possessed of four Pranas. viz., Indriya (the senses), Bal (force), Ayu (life) and Ana-prana (respiration) in the three periods of time (viz., the present, the past and the future), and according to Nischaya Naya that which has consciousness is called Jiva.
COMMENTARY. Vyavahara and Nischaya Naya is thus distinguished in Dravyanuyogatarkana of Bhoja :
"तेनेदं भाष्यसंदिष्टं गृहीतव्यं विनिश्चयम्
सत्त्वार्थं निश्चयो वक्ति व्यवहारो जनोदितम् ।।" i. e.; "Therefore, this is to be understood as described in the Bhasya ( Visesavasyaka-bhasya, a celebrated Jaina work ) that Nischaya narrates the real töing and Vyavahara narrates things in the popular way. "Vyavahara Naya, therefore, is the ordinary or common sense point of view in which we speak every day about the things of this world. But Nischaya Naya is the realistic point of view, which attempts an accurate description of the realities which are over-looked in our everyday parlance For example, we ordinarily say "a jar of honey," but to be accurate we must say "a jar of elay or some other substance containing honey" The characteristics of Jiva will be examined from both these points of view in the following verses.
Here it is said that ordinarily we say that Jiva ( Living Substance ) possesses the five senses, Sight, Hearing, Touch, Taste and Smell, the three forces of thought, word and action, life and respira