First Principal of the Jaina Philosophy

Author(s): Hirachand Liladhar Zaveri
Publisher: Jaina Vividh Sahitya Shastramala

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THÉ JAIN PHILOSOPHY
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to something in the water foreign to its nature. Modifications of muddiness would come under this heading. Anger, melancholy, pleasure, pain, are foreign qualities of the soul due to karina. Modifications in these would be this second kind. Its name is karmabhavin paryaya.
Besides this division of modifications (paryayas) into the above two kinds, they may be divided into four, and these four as applied to living beings (jiva) are
1. That modification (paryaya) of an embodied being which is the sign of the pure nature of the being. For instance, the pure nature of the soul is to be a liberated being (sidha), and there is a sign of this nature in the last embodied state of the being. The name of this kind of modification (paryaya) is svabhava-dravya-vyanjana paryaya.
2. Modifications of the soul's qualities when in its pure state. For instance, knowledge, one of the attributes of the soul, is changing all the time, and the changes in the knowledge are called paryayas. The name of this class of paryayas is svabhava-gunavyanjana paryaya.
3. Those modifications which signify something unnatural in tha being. This class of modifications