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NAVA TATVA.
NAVA TATVA SUTRA;
OR,
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THE NINE PRINCIPLES OF THINGS.
THE following are the Nine Principles of Things: (1) Animation; (2) Inanimate Matter; (3) Merit; (4) Demerit; (5) Appetite and Passion, and other provocatives to sin; (6) Self-Denial, and other helps to virtue; (7) Means to free the Mind from worldly attachments; (8) Worldly Attachments; (9) Final Deliverance*.
Of the first and second of these there are fourteen varieties; of the third, forty-two; of the
* The original is as follows : - जीवाऽजीवा पुर्ण पावाऽसव संवरोय निज्जरणा बद्धी मुखोय The Sanskrit equivalents are जीव अजीव पुण्य पाप श्राश्रव संवर निर्जरा बंध मोक्ष तत्वं
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