Jaina Ontology

Author(s): K K Dixit
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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JAINA ONTOLOGY
yaśaḥkirti (desirable fame), iştautthana-karma-bala-virya-puruşakara. parākrama (desirable preparedness, action, strength, energy, manly valour), iştasvara (desirable voice), kantasyara (beautiful voice), priyasvara (lovable voice), manojñasvara (amiable voice) (14 items
in all). (2) Asubhanāma (inauspicious nämakarma); anişta (undesirable) sabda, ani.
starūpa,.........anistasvara, akāntasvara, hinasvara, dinasvara (again 14
items in all). This list is unknown to the later Karma-specialists but Bhagavati contains passages which represent a stage when it was in the process of being formulated. Thus in one passage are enumerated ten inauspicious experiences of a nāraka and they are the first ten items of the above sub-list of aśubhanamakarma;7+ again, another passage says that a newborn babe will
certain good or bad bodily traits in case he is in possession of the corresponding good or bad karmas, and here the professed list of traits includes the last four items of the above sub-list of śubha and aśubha nämakarmas.75 Then we have to take into account the following features of the account contained in the chapters 24th-27th.
I It confines itself to the 8 basic types of karmas II It confines itself to the problems of karmabandha (karmic bondage)
and karmavedana (karmic experience). III It conducts its discussion without naming the 14 günasthanas (and
it says nothing that might presuppose the positing of 2nd and 8th
gunasthānas). Contrasted to these are the corresponding features of the later-day account, viz.
It takes in its purview not only the 8 basic types of karmas but
also the sub-types posited in each case. II It raises the problems of karma-bandha, karma-vedana (usually called
karmodaya) and karma-sattā (karmic abidance). III It explicitly conducts its discussion in terms of the 14 gunasthanas,
It is not difficult to see the direction of the advance made by the latter account over the former. As for the actual subjectmatter of the four Prajñāpanä chapters in question it is as follows: 24th Karmabardhapada
[ Ban tha of which karmas takes place along with the bandha of
this or that karma ? 1 25th Karmavedapada
[ Vedana of which karmas takes place along with the bandha of this or that karma ?1