Gommatasara Jiva Kanda

Author(s): Nemichandra Siddhant Chakravarti, J L Jaini
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown

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II-The Anga-Bahya Shruta, or Seriptures other
than the Twelve Angas. This contains 80, 108, 175 letters divided into fourteen Prakir. nakas.
1. The Sámáyika-Prakírnaka contains an account of the six kinds of Samáyika: náma (name), Sthápan" (representation), drvaya (substance), kshetra (place), kála (time) and bháva (nature or condition).
2. The Samstava-Prakírnaka gives an account of the five stages in the lives of Tirthankaras, their thirty-four powers, eight Prátiháryas (miracles), most refined body, Samavasarana (Divine Hall of Audience), and preaching of dharma or religious doctrine.
3. The Vandaná-prákírnaka deals with the temples and other places of worship.
4. The Pratikramana-prakírnaka gives an account of those methods that are necessary for the removal of those defects that are related to the day, to the night, to the fortnight, to the four months, and to the year; relating to the íryápatha, (careful walking), and those defects which arise in the perfect condition of the death of a pious man.
5. The Vinaya-prakírnaka gives an account of five kinds of vinaya (humility and becoming modesty of behaviour), relating to belief, knowledge, conduct, austerity, and behaviour.
6. The Kriti-Karma-Prakírnaka, gives detailed accounts of the modes of the worship, etc., of the Jinas (Tirthankars); and of the significance of obeisance and reverence paid to Arhats, Siddhas, Ácháryas, Upadhyayas, Sádhus, Jainism, images of Jaina Tírthankaras, the word of Jainas, and the Jaina temples by making three bows to them and by going round them three times, from right to left, by making twelve obeisances and by bending the head in the four directions.
7. The Dasa-vaikālika-prakírnaka contains rules of conduct and of purity of food for the ascestics.
8. The Uttaradhyayana-prakírnaka gives details and effects of four kinds of disturbances and twenty-two kinds of troubles or sufferings (paríshaha) that an ascetic may have to undergo.
9. The Kalpa-vyavahára-prakírnaka gives the right practices of the ascetics and also details of purificatory methods on lapses from right practices.
10. The Kalpakalpa-Prakírnaka considers the things, places, or thoughts that may be allowable for use by a monk, from the points. of view of substance, place, time and nature.