Jain Journal 1985 01

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

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JANUARY, 1985
101
gosirşacandanālepe vāsichede ca bāhayoh/ abhinnā cittavsttiscet tadā sāmyamanuttaram||
“When a person's mind is completely indifferent to his hands being smeared with sandalwood and cut with the adze, then there is the highest equanimity."60
This verse of Hemacandra gives an unequivocal explanation of the phrase under discussion.
(2) Another eminent expounder of Jainism Haribhadra Suri, in his commentary to the Avašyaka-Niryuktī61 explains as follows : 62
jo candaneņa bāhum alipai vāsiņā va taccheil sa thunai jo va nindai maharsiņo tattha samabhāvoll
i
“The great ascetics keep equanimity when one anoints the arm with sandalwood or cuts with the adze, and when one praises or abuses”.
(3) In his commentary to Yasovijayagani's Adhyatmasāra,63 commentator Gambhiravijayagani explains the phrase thus : 64
vāsicandanatulyatāh-vāsī kuthärikā, tayā sārīrasyacchedanam tathā candanenārcanam tayorvişaye tulyatā fokaharşābhāvātsādtsyam syatrāgadveşayoravakāśā bhāvādityarthah.
“Vāsi means kuthārikā i.e. a small axe (or an adze)-slitting of the body by it-and anointment with sandalwood-equality in the subject of these two—it is because of the absence of sadness and happiness that is because of the absence of possibility of love and hatred.”
60 Yogasastra of. Hemchandra, ed and tr into German by E. Windisch, in the
Zeitschrift der Deutsohen Morgenlandeschen Gesellschaft, Vol. XXVIII, p.185
ff, ch IV, v. 54 (ii). 61 vasicandanakappo jo marane jivie ya samasannol dehe ya apadivaddho kausaggo hayai tassa||
-Avasyaka Niryukti, v. 1546. 62 Avasyaka Niryukti with Haribhadra's commentary, pub by Agamodaya Samiti,
Bombay, 1916-17, p. 799(i). 68 samataparipake syat visayagrahasunyata/
yatha visadayoganam vasicandanatulyata|| Adhyatmasara by Yasovijayagani, pub by Jain Dharm Prasarak Sabha,
Bhavnagar, 1915, 3/37. # Ibid., p.70.