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Gommatsara, Jiva-kand
107 self-purification, and sal-lekhana (pious death) and high forms of worship performed in sacred places.
12. The Pundarîka-prakirņaka gives details of charity, worship, austerity, belief, self-control etc., that lead the soul to incarnation in one of the four classes of celestials; also an account of the birthplaces of the celestials.
13. The Maha-pundarika-prakirnaka gives details of the causes, austerity etc. that lead to a soul being reborn as Indra, Pratindra etc.
14. The Nișid!iká-prakîrnaka gives many methods of purifying oneself from the faults arising from carelessness.
THE JAINA THEORY OF NUMBERS
The other way of gaining some slight and distant idea of Omniscience is to consider the Jaina Theory of Nurnbers.
BRIEF STATEMENT OF 21 KINDS OF NUMBERS
Nares of the numbers
Their Algebraical expressions
Remarks
I. SAMKHYATA. (LS.) 1. Jaghanya S. 2. Madhyama S.
A=2
B-3, 4 &c., upto
C-1.
B=3, 4, 5 to D-2.
C=D-1
C=D-1
3. Utkrisia S.
.. II. ASAMKHYATA (=A). 4. Jaghanya Parîta A. 5. Madhyama Parita A.
D=(See below.) E=D -1 to F-1.
D=(See below) E=D+1 to D4-2.
6. Utkrista Parîta A.
F=G
F=D4-1 G-D
7. Jayhanya Yukta A.
G=D
E.g. number of instants in an Avali or wink.
8. Madnyama Yukta A. H-D4+1 to I1. H=Dd F-1 to D2.2 Number of
spatial units in loka which can
be the 9. Utkrista Yukta A. .. J-1
possibic
subject mat. 10. Jaghanya Asarakhyâta A. J-G2
J-D24
ter of visual know ledge
(Avadhi Joa11. Madhyama Asamkhyata A. K-GH -1 to L-1.! KD21 +1 to
na) of the M-2.
highest kind. 12. Utkrista Asamkhyata A... L M -1
L=M-1
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