Illuminator of Jaina Tenets

Author(s): Tulsi Acharya
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati

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Illuminator of Jaina Tenets
. Lustre 1 ३३. एकप्रदेशाविषु विकल्प्यः पुद्गलानाम् ।
लोकस्यैकप्रदेशादिषु पुद्गलानामवगाहो विकल्पनीयः । 33. ekapradeśādișu vikalpyaḥ pudgalānām. lokasyaikapradeśādișu pudgalānām avagāho vikalpanīyaḥ.
(Aph.) The spatial extension of pudgalas varies from a single to innumerable space-points. (XXXIII)
(Gloss) The accommodation of material bodies is possible in any number of space-points of the cosmic space, the minimum extent being one space-point. ३४.. असंख्येयभागादिषु जीवानाम् ।
__जीवः खलु स्वभावात् लोकस्य अल्पादल्पं असंख्येयप्रदेशात्मकमसंख्येयतमं भागमवरुध्य तिष्ठति, न पुद्गलवत् एकप्रदेशादिकम्, इति असंख्येयभागादिषु जीवानामवगाहः ।
असंख्येयप्रदेशात्मके च लोके परिणतिवैचित्र्यात् प्रदीपप्रभापटलवदनन्तानामपि जीवपुद्गलानां समावेशो न दुर्घटः । 34. asamkhyeyabhāgādișu jīvānām.
jīvaḥ khalu svabhāvāt lokasya alpīd alpam asamkhyeyapradeśātmakam asamkhyeyatamaṁ bhāgam avarudhya tişthati, na pudgalavad ekapradeśādikam, iti asamkhyeyabhāgādişu jīyānām avagāhaḥ. asamkhyeyapradeśātmake ca loke pariņativaicitryāt pradīpaprabhāpațalavad anantānām api jīvapudgalānāṁ samāveso na durghatah.
(Aph.) The spatial extension of the jīvas varies from minimum to the entire cosmic space. The minimum extension would consist of innumerable space-points, although it is an asaṁkhyeyath fraction of the cosmic space. (XXXIV)
(Gloss) The jīva indeed, by nature, exists by occupying, at the minimum, an immeasurably small portion of the cosmic space, consisting of an innumerable number of space-points corresponding to innumerable pradeśas constituting it. It cannot, like a material body, exist in one space-point and the like. The extension of the jīvas thus is possible in any portion of space, the minimum measure of which covers a number of innumerable points (of the cosmic space). It is on account of the peculiar nature of transformation of jīva and pudgala that the accommodation of even an infinite number of souls and pudgalas, like the multitude of lamp-lights, is not impossible in the cosmic space which has only an innumerable number of space-points.