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Muminator of Jaina Tenets
Lustre VII
The beings enjoying a life-span of innumerable years comprise the primitive twin (male and female) yaugalika human and animal. ३२. शेषाः सोपक्रमायुषोऽपि । 32. śeşāḥ sopakramāyuşo'pi.
(Aph.) The rest (of the beings) are subject to abrupt end also. (XXXII) ३३. अध्यवसान-निमित्त-आहार-वेदना-पराघात-स्पर्श-उच्छ्वास - निःश्वासा
उपक्रमकारणानि ।
अध्यवसानम्-रागस्नेहभयात्मकोऽध्यवसायः । निमित्तम्-दण्ड• शस्त्रादि । आहारः-न्यूनोऽधिको वा । वेदना-नयनादिपीड़ा ।
पराघातः-गर्तपातादिः । सर्शः--भुजङ्गादोनाम् । उच्छ्वासनिः
श्वासौ-व्याधिरूपेण निरुद्धौ। 33. adhyavasāna-nimitta - āhāra-vedanā - parāghāta-sparsa-ucchvāsaniņš
vāsā upakramakāraṇāni. adhyavasanam-raga-sneha-bhayatmako'dhyavasayah. nimittamdandasastradi. āhārah-nyāno'dhiko va. vedana-nayanādipida. parāghātaḥ--garttapātādih. sparśaḥ-bhujangadīnām. ucchväsanihSvasau-vyadhirupena niruddhau.
(Aph.) The causes of the abrupt end (of life-span) are emotional impulses, weapons, food, distress, accident, contact and suffocation. (XXXIII)
(Gloss) Emotional impulse is one of the nature of attachment, affection and fear. Weapon means stick, arms and ammunition etc. Food here stands for too much or too little (alimentation). Distress means excruciating pain in the eye etc. Accident means fall in the ditch and the like. Contact means contact with snake and the like. Suffocation means arrestation of respiration caused by disease.
इति जीवस्थानस्वरूपनिर्णयः ।
iti Jivasthānasvarūpanirņayaḥ. Here ends the seventh lustre called the "Nature of Spiritual Development."
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