Dravya Sangraha

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

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The Sacred Book of the Jains
Darshana (psychic knowledge, limited by space and time and obtained directly by the soul, e. .g., clairvoyance). Lastly, by the removal of the Karmas which obscure Kevala Darshana, a Jiva can have Kevala (or perfect) Darshana (in which everything in the three worlds existent in the present, past and the future is at once cognised ).
(Besides the four Varieties of Karmas obscuring Darshana already mentioned, there are also five others mentioned by Umasvami, e. g., Nidra (sleep), Nidranidra (Deep sleep), Prachala (Trance) Prachala prachala (Drowsiness) and styanagriddhi (Somnambulistic state). These, together with the Karmas obscuring Chaksu, Achaksu, Avadhi and Kevala Darshana already mentioned, make up nine Darshanavaraniya Karmas).
mm' ugfauċq afayang zurumunfun | मरणपज्जय केवलमवि पच्च-क्खपरो- क्खभेयं च ॥ ५॥
Nanam Atthaviyappam madisudaohi ananananani Manapajjaya Kevalamavi pachchakkha-parokkha-vheyam cha (5).
Padapatha. मदिसुदप्रोही अणाणणाराणि Matisuda-ohi ananananani, the Jnana and Ajnana of Mati, Sruta and Avadhi fa Avi also #¶¶ Manapajjaya, Manah paryaya. Kevalam, Kevala i Nanam, Jnana. Atthaviyappam, of eight varieties. Cha, also. Pachchakkha-parokkha-vheyam, has the varieties Pratyaksha
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and Paroksha.
5. Jnana is of eight kinds, viz., Jnana and Ajnana of Mati, Sruta and Avadhi, Manah-paryaya and Kevala. (It is also divided into Pratyaksha and Paroksha ( from another point of view).
COMMENTARY
verse :
In the previous Verse, the first stage of cognition, viz., Darshana Cundifferentiated knowledge) has been described. In this verse the next stage, Jnana detailed knowledge ), with its varieties, is described. The eight kinds of Jnana are (1) Mati Jnana, (2) Sruta Jnana, (3) Avadhi Jnana, (4) Manah-paryaya Jnana, (5) Kevala Jnana, (6) Kumati or Ajnana of Mati, (7) Kusruta or Ajnana of Sruta and (8) Vibhangavadhi or Ajnana of Avadhi.
Kundakundacharya has summed up all of them in the following
,आभिणिवोधिसुदोधिमरणकेवलारिण गागारिण पंचभेयाणि । gafaya faimfu & fafou fa mru' fg gà 11