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Jaina Paribhasika Sabdakosa
ascetic conduct):
to play the game of chess or gambling. 'aṣṭapadam' dyitam. (Da 3.4 HaVr Pa 117)
Asamkhyeya (Asamkhyāta)
Innumerable-A kind of calculable number: that which is beyond numerable. By adding one to maximum numerable number, jaghanya-parita-asambleya is obtained. Asamkhyeya is of three types: parita, yukta and asankhyeya. Each of these three are of three types: minimum, middle, (Anu 574,576,577,587)
maximum.
See-Samkhyeya.
Asamkhyeya Jiva
That vegetation, which has Asamkhyeya (innumerable) Jivas (souls) in a single body. -punnaga nagarukkhe sivanni taha asoge ya.. je yavanne tahappagärä. etesi nam mūlā vi asamkhejjajiviya, kamda vi khamdha vi tayā vi sālā vi pavālā vi.... (Prajna 1.48)
Asamjnipañcendriya
That five-sensed Jiva (soul), which is Asamini (devoid of mental faculty). (Bhaga 24.300)
Asamjiibhūta
That Jiva (soul), which, after dying in an Amanaska species (which is not endowed with mental faculty), has taken reincarnation in the Samanaska species (which is endowed with mental faculty);
such Jiva (living being), which has the potentiality of mental development but has not developed it due to lack of developed brain; it does not have the potentiality of remembering the good or evil indulged in or enmity etc. which existed in the past life.
ye tvasamjnibhyaste'samjaibhatäh, asamjninaśca pāścatyam na kimapi janmäntarakṛtam subhamasubham vairādikam vā smaranti. (Prajna 17.9 Vr Pa 557,558)
Asamjñimanuşya
Human (devoid of mental faculty)-A fivesensed human being, which is Amanaska (devoid of mental faculty), and which is born in excretion, urine etc., of the human beings who are Samanaska (endowed with mental faculty). (Bhaga 24.300)
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Asamjniśruta
1. A kind of Śrutajñāna (the articulate knowledge);
that articulate knowledge of a living being, which is devoid of Kāliki Upadesa Samjñā (ie. which is Amanaska or one which is not endowed with mental faculty). (Nandi 55) 2. That articulate knowledge of a living being. which is devoid of the karayasakti (Karaṇavirya), i.e., the capacity capacity to do any work with due reflection over it.
3. The śruta (articulate knowledge or the scripture) of a Mithyadrști (2) (a Jiva (soul) possessed of deluded world-view). See-Asamini.
Asamjni
1. Living being devoid of mental faculty-That Jiva (living being), which is devoid of (mental faculties such as) iha, apoha, mārgaṇā, gaveṣaṇā, cinta and vimarsa is Asamini with respect to Kaliki Upadesa Samjñā (Mana (mind)). jassa nam natthi iha, apoho, maggaṇā, gavesaṇā, cimtā, vimamsa-se nam asanmiti labbhai.
(Nandi 62) 2. That Jiva (living being), which does not possess the karanaśakti (Karaṇavirya), 1.e., the capacity to do any work with due reflection over
it;
it is Asamji (devoid of mental faculty) with respect to Hetu Upadesa Samjña, l.e., reasoning
mind.
jassa nam natthi abhisandhäraṇapuvviyā karanasatti-se nam asanmiti bhannai. (Nandi 63) 3. A person who is Mithyädrsti (2) (a Jiva (soul) possessed of deluded world-view)). micchaddiṭṭhi asanni bhanito. (NandiCap.47)
Asamdigdha Avagrahamati
A type of empirical Avagraha (sensation): to have cognizance of the object free from doubt, e.g-to know only on the basis of touch that "this is definitely a woman'.
niscitam sakalasamsayadidoṣarahitamiti, yatha tameva yoṣidädisparśamavagrhnat jäänam yosita eva. (TaBha 1.16 Vṛ) .....nissamkitam hota'samdiddham...
(VyaBhā 4108)
Asambhavi
A type of Lakṣaṇābhāṣa (psaudo-characteristic);
