Book Title: Jainism Precepts and Practice
Author(s): Puranchand Nahar, Krishnakant Ghosh
Publisher: Caxton Publications

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________________ ( XII ) Difference, but nowhere in his scholium on the Brahm Sutras could he quote direct from the writtings of Bodhayana. What Bodhayan taught no body knows. Had there been the existence of any commentary by him on the Sutras in question even at the time of Shankar, then Shankar, the upright and audacious, would never have left him unnoticed in his unrivalled commentaries and writtings because he is found to freely draw upon his predecessors, friend or opponent. With Be that as it may, the Jain sages have made sifting enquiry into the nature and matter of this mathy&tva and found possibilites of its removal through Samvar or Stoppage of the Influx and through Nirjar or gradual dissipation of what already found its way into the soul the completion of this dissipation, the soul gets rid of all the veil and covering of Karma and shines in perfect freedom and omniscience enjoying bliss divine for all time to come, this is what called Moksha of Nirvan or Extinction of all pain and suffering, the grand Summum Bonum of one and all life and living (Vide Chapters XXXII to XXXV).

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