Book Title: Mahapurana Part 1
Author(s): Pushpadant, P L Vaidya
Publisher: Bharatiya Gyanpith

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________________ VII. 19) NOTES 433 10. 8a FTS TUS FTATUTLet this human life go to the burial place, as we say in Marathi gania arat, i. e., I care a straw for the human life. 11. la facture , the world is divided into three sections each having a different shape; the region of demons and creatures in hell has the shape of an earthen plate ( 7519 ) turned downwards : the region of human beings and lower animals has the shape of a gafot; the region of gods has the shape of a मृदन. 9a मोक्खु वि आयवत्तसंणिहयरु, the place of region of emancipated souls has the shape of an umbrella. 12. 4a argfeargaifa, by beams made of ribs. 13. 4a Tuafors 994155-Acts which obscure knowledge are of five types, viz., Afastacoftu, a la cuita, afegiaorta, 4:00 raguita and केवलज्ञानावरणीय. See उत्तराध्ययनसूत्र xxxiii. 4. 5a णवविहदसणु, acts which obscure दर्शन fall under nine heads:-निद्रा, निद्रानिद्रा ( deep sleep ), प्रचला ( drowsiness), 4017 ( heavy drowsiness ), Farafe ( somnambulism ); qataracuta, 377787 fara conta, afecafarasite and amefara cuita. See 372754977, xxxiii. 5-6. For other divisions of # see the same text and Appendix II in Miss Helen Johnson's translation of Trisasti. 13 तिगइ i.e., पाणियुक्ता, लाङ्गली and गोमूत्रिका, straight, curved and zigzag movements. 14. 12-13 fafcuruante etc. If a person stops all sources of sin and conducts himself properly, new acts do not enter the soul, and those acts which long remained with it are destroyed by bodily sufferings as they do not get any nourishment. 15. 26 giffeuatt, I shall be a naked monk. The emphatic and express mention of this term here and also in 26. 156 below and at several other places shows that the work is written form the point of view of the Digambara Jains. 106 foaferuiafaut fe by particular permutations and combinations of morsels of food obtained by begging. It refers to the various fwegfahrs in which food is regulated on the basis of counting the afer or dole obtained or the morsels to be eaten, See below 16. 3a. . 16. 12-13 fe gefouert etc.-Just as a pond is dried up by the rays of the sun, and slso when water a lready therein is drained and the influx of it is stopped by building dams (azaroř), in the same way acts done in various births are exhausted by the control of senses ( which prevents the influx of sinful acts ) and by the practice of penance ( prescribed for a monk ). 19. 16 ayaqarat, reflections of twelve types on the momentoriness, impurity etc. see aratafft, IX. 7. Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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