Jain Journal 2002 07

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

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Dr. Rajjan Kumar : Avadhijnāna: The Supersensuous Knowledge
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3. Sarvavadhi: Avadhi related to the whole. It is without any gradation24. It perceives innumerable units of space in addition to those already covered by paramāvadhi. It meets with four stages of avasthita. anugamina. ananugamina and apratipatina's One thing is noticeable about Sarvavadhi that it cognized all the objects that are within the scope of avadhi. It necessarily results into kevala.26 It is also supposed that the categories of Desavadhi and Sarvavadhi cover the entire range of avadhi.
The conception of sarvavadhi is not found in Svetambara text like Viseṣāvaśyaka Bhāṣya. According to this tradition Paramavadhi results into kevalajñāna.27
Categories of Avadhijñāna
Jainācāryas like Akalanka defines the categories of avadhijñāna, which are 8 in number28 Vardhamana, Hiyamana. Avasthita. Anavasthita, Anugami, Ananugami. Apratipati and Pratipati.
Vardhamana : The avadhi which is negligible at the time of its birth but gradually increases upto the extent of whole universe. It is like the fire of match-stick thrown into a heap of dry fuel.
Hiyamana: The avadhi which covers large area at the time of its origin, but shrinks gradually up to the stage of negligiblity or disappears totally.
Avasthita: The avadhi which is steady. Having once appeared, it never disappears upto the attainment of kevalajñāna or the end of life. Sometimes, it follows the next life also.
Anavasthita: the avadhi which is unsteady; increases and decreases without any system.
Anugami: The avadhi which follows the owner even if he leaves the place of its birth.
Ananugamika: The avadhi which stickes to the place of its birth; which does not follow the owner if he happens to leave that particular place where avadhi was produced.
Pratipati: The avadhi which shines like a flash of lightening disappears at once without any duration.