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of certain holy places at which only it can be obtained.
4. Sparsana, contact, or identity of the individuated living principle with that of the universe, or any part of it.
5. Kúla, the times or ages at which emancipation is attainable; or the periods spent in various transmigrations.
6. Antara, the difference of temperaments or dispositions.
7. Bhaga, the existence of the imperishable part of all living bodies in which the purified essences or Siddhas reside.
8. Bháva, the nature or property of that pure existence which has attained the Kevalajnána, and other perfections essential to final liberation.
9. Alpabahutwa, the degree or ratio in which different classes of being's obtain emancipation'.
From the details of these nine Tattwas the sum of the whole Jain system may be collected, but they form only the text on which further subtilties are founded, and they leave the end and scope of all the doctrine or the attainment of ultimate liberation singularly indistinct.
The Moksha of the Jains is exemption from the incidents of life, and above all from the necessity of
Although termed a t : in the original authorities, these varieties are rather in the requisite conditions for attaining Moksha , than in the kind or sort of emancipation attained.
