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Christian Lindtner
5. Those in the opinion of whom the world is [the creation] of Kasyapa, Dakṣa, etc.-how can they [explain that there] suddenly is an existence [of the world] when the world was not there [to begin with] ?
Jambu-jyoti
6. When everything, including the earth, the sky, etc., is destroyed, what, then, is the world? Is it intellect? Something unmanifest that is deposited ? But what form does it have?
7. [The Buddhists who are supposed] to have the best of all instructions, have explained that everything [= the entire world] is the product of something individually unique (svalakṣaṇa), immaterial or material, that exists in its own unique way.
8. But this means that all things in this world, material and immaterial, must have the same individuality. Anything that does not have that individually must therefore be held to be as unreal as the son of a barren woman! [In other words: Many individuals cannot make a real whole]. 9. If the horn of a horse cannot arise [or be created] from the horn of an ass, then, likewise, for certain, real things cannot arise from unreal things.
10. Here [some people think] that something sometimes can manifest itself from something unmanifest that is lacking characteristics. But if Soma, etc., already have bodies, then the elements do not exist [since Soma etc. can do without them].
11. But if the group of great elements does not exist then they [namely Soma, etc.,] cannot have any bodies! [And that goes for all the gods :] Soma, the Egg, Pitämaha, Hari as well as Pasupati and Dinapati.
12. And when they do not have any bodies, it is impossible to make any distinction between intelligence and mind. When they are absent, reflection and certainty cannot come into being: it is not possible !
13. When they are absent there can be no will. When there is no will, then action has no value. To do something makes no sense because actions have no value.
Jain Education International
14. [A new argument :] If the world is created by such a [god], who, then, created him? Or is it your opinion that he is uncreated? It must be understood, if this is the case, that the entire universe here likewise [must be uncreated].
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