Essence Of Jaina Scriptures

Author(s): Jagdish Prasad Jain
Publisher: Kaveri Books

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BOOK II: THE PRINCIPLE OF KNOWLEDGE
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nature (anvaya), which (1) exists as long as the gold exists, (2) proceeds simultaneously, and (3) develops the gold-assuming now these, then those particular divergences, which (1) exists as long as the modifications, such as a bracelet, exist, (2) proceeds in succession, and (3) develops the modifications such as a bracelet, has a manifestation bound to an existent-nature.
(B) But, when called modifications, and not substance, then the substance, while-by means of now of these, then of those, particular divergences, which (1) are characterized by commencement and termination, (2) proceed in succession, and (3) develop modifications, assuming the energies of sameness of nature, which (1) are exempt from commencement and termination, (2) proceed simultaneously, and (3) develop the substance, has a manifestation bound to a non-existent nature, as in the case of gold.
For, when it is called modifications, such as a bracelet, and not gold, then the gold, while-by means now of these, then of those particular divergences, which (1) exist as long as the modifications, such as the bracelet, exist, (2) proceed in succession, and (3) develop the modifications, such as the bracelet, -assuming the energies of its sameness of nature, which (1) exist as long as the gold exists, (2) proceed simultaneously, and (3) develop the gold, has a manifestation bound to a non-existent nature.
(© But even in the case of denotation by the term “modifications,” when thus origination from a non-existent takes place, the respective particular divergences, which develop the modifications, will, as attaining a simultaneous procedure, share in the nature of the energies of the sameness of nature (anvaya, “general nature”), and make the modifications into a substance.
So, through the particular divergences, which develop the modifications, such as a bracelet, and which, as attaining a simultaneous procedure, share in the nature of the energies of the sameness of nature, the modifications (read angadadi-paryaya api), such as a bracelet, will become gold.
(D) And likewise in the case of denotation by the term “substance," when thus origination from an existent takes place, the energies of the sameness of nature, which develop the substance, will, as attaining a successive procedure, share in the nature of the particular divergences, and make the substance into modifications.