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NAVA TATVA.
state, and no interruption to their bliss. They have perfect vision and knowledge, they have no dependence on works, but exercise themselves according to the highest philosophy. Such is the life of the Perfect.
Few neuters, [not more than ten at a time], and a small proportion of females, [not more than twenty at a time], obtain perfection; the perfect consist chiefly of males, [of which one hundred and eight may be emancipated at once]. Such is the doctrine of emancipation, and the conclusion of the Tract, or the Nine Principles of Things. He who is acquainted with these nine principles, and lays hold of them by faith, is perfect in knowledge. He who is ignorant of them cannot be perfect in knowledge. The words and doctrine of all the Jain Lords is here, and nowhere else to be found; therefore, he whose mind is instructed in these, possesses true and stable knowledge. He who has had this knowledge impressed on his mind for only an hour, is detained only by half the mental and bodily attraction that he was before.
In time there are infinite cycles, of which an infinite number have passed, and an infinite number are to come. Among sages there are the following distinctions: Jinas, and those not Jinas; Tirthankaras, and those who are not; Householders and Mendicants, and Regular Ascetics; Men, Women, and Eunuchs; those instructed by a
