Hemaraj Pandes Caurasi Bol

Author(s): Padmanabh S Jaini
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Padmanabh S. Jaini
Jambu-jyoti
Hemaraj Pande's work contains eighty-four (caurāsī) points (bol) presented in a composition of ninety-one verses in varieties of Hindi meters. The number eighty-four seems to have been deliberately chosen by him to match with the eighty-four hundred thousand varieties of yonis into which a jīva may repeatedly be reborn in the course of samsāra (see verse no. 88). He is suggesting thereby that those who hold these views may not escape samsāra. In the absence of any prior Digambara work on this topic, we might assume that he himself drew up this list and composed his verses accordingly.
Upadhyāya Yaśovijayaji's refutation has one hundred sixty-one verses and yet his response seems to be limited to only some fifty-one topics. I list here in serial order the eighty-four points attributed by Hemaraj to the Svetămbaras. The Svetāmbara refutation does not follow the same order of items nor does it address all the points and hence is given in a separate
list.
A brief outline of the eighty-four disputed views (vădas) attributed to the Svetāmbaras by the Digambara śråvaka Hemaraj Pande [numbers refer to the verses] :
Introductory verses with a brief account of the beginning of the Svetāmbara sect during the time of ācārya Bhadrabāhu. (1-18)
1. The Kevalin partakes of food by morsel (kavala-āhāra). (19-24) 2. The Kevalin needs to answer the calls of nature (nīhāra). (25-27)
3. The Kevalin is subject to the suffering of disease (roga). (28)
4. The Kevalin may suffer attacks (upasarga), such as that which
happened to Mahāvīra at the hands of Gośāla (29)
5. The Jina (like Vardhmana) attends school although he possesses
avad hijñāna at the time of his birth'. (30-31)
6. The Jina, prior to abandoning the household, distributes gifts for
an entire yearl. (32)
7. The Jina gives up clothes at the time of his renunciation but Indra,
the King of Gods, places a length of cloth over his shoulder (devadūsya)2 (33)