Jain Journal 1974 04

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

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APRIL, 1974
4th., Ayuşka, association or connection with the body or person, that (as the etymology of the term denotes), which proclaims (cayate) age (ayuşya) or duration of life.
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Otherwise interpreted the four karmas of this 2nd set, taken in the inverse order, that is beginning with ayuşka impart procreating and subsequent progress in the formation of the person or body whence deliverance is attainable by the soul which animates it; for it is by connextion with white or immaculate matter that final liberation can be accomplished. I shall not dwell on the particular explanation respectively of these four karmas, taken in this sense.
Another arrangement, which likewise has special reference to final deliverance, is taught is a five-fold distribution of the predicaments or categories (astikāya). The word here referred to is explained as signifying a substance commonly occuring; or a term of general import; or (conformable with its etymology) that of which it is said (cayate) that 'it is' (asti)-in other words, that of which existence is predicted.
1. The first is jivastikāya: the predicament, life or soul. It is, as before, noticed, either bound, liberated or ever-perfect.
2. pudgalastikaya: the predicament, matter comprehending all bodies composed of atoms. It is sixfold, comprising the four elements and all sensible objects, fixed or movables. It is the same with ajiva or second of the categories enumerated in an arrangement before noticed.
3. Dharmastikāya: the predicament, virtue; inferrable from a right direction of the organs. Dharma is explained as a substance or thing ((dravya) from which may be concluded, as its effect, the soul's ascent to the region above.
4. Adharmastikaya: the predicament, vice; or the reverse of the foregoing. Adharma is that which causes the soul to continue embarrassed with body, notwithstanding its capacity for ascent and natural tendency to soar.
5. Akāśāstikāya: the predicament, ākāśa, of which there are 2: lokākāśa, alokākāśa.
(a) Lokākāśa is the abode of the cloud; a world region consisting of diverse tiers, one above the other, wherein dwell successive orders of beings unliberated,