Mahavira Jain Vidyalay Suvarna Mahotsav Granth Part 1

Author(s): Mahavir Jain Vidyalaya Mumbai
Publisher: Mahavir Jain Vidyalay

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SVABHAVAVĀDA (NATURALISM) : A STUDY : 13
"In consequence of the existence of pleasure and pain, merit and demerit should not be here in this connection) postulated by others. A man feels pleasure or pain by nature and there is no other cause for it. Who colours wonderfully the peacocks, or who makes the cuckoos coo so well ? There is in respect of these things no cause other than nature."
In his commentary10 to the Visesavaśyakabhasya Maladhări Hemacandra quotes three verses giving the views of Svabhāvavadins. "The supporters of the doctrine of Svabhāva (nature, inner nature, natural development) teach that all things originate without any cause. They do not regard even 'Sva' (own, itself) as cause. What makes the varied nature of lotuses and of thorns and the like? What has fashioned the variegated plumage of peacocks ? Whatever is found in this world is all without cause and due to mere accident. Like the sharpness of thorns human happiness and grief come about by Svabhāva only."
In the course of his discussion about the Svabhāvavada (Introduction to Ganadharavada) Malvania quotes two versesll on Svabhāvavāda as well-known.
"It is due to the all-controlling nature (Svabhāva) that some things are ever-existing, some others ever non-existing and still some others varied in nature. Fire is hot, water is cool, wind is neither hot nor cool
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स्वभाववादिभिस्ते हि नाहुः स्वमपि कारणम् ॥ राजीवकण्टकादीनां वैचित्र्यं कः करोति हि । मयूरचन्द्रिकादिर्वा विचित्रः केन निर्मितः ॥ कादाचित्कं यदनास्ति निःशेषं तदहेतुकम् । यथा कण्टकतैक्ष्ण्यादि तथा चैते सुखादयः ।।
-Maladhāri Hemacandra's Commentary to
Ganadharavada II, v. 1963 Note: The text reads' Frarating laat fafaz:'. Shri Malvania renders it as "The plumage of the peacock is variegated and the moonlight is bright white ..." (Ganadharavāda (p. 45) : Gujarat Vidyasabhā, Ahmedabad). It appears to me, however, that the text originally must have read Hrastarlal fara: '—which reading eminently suits the context. 11 f ar ara facilitaran
विचित्राः केचिदित्यत्र तत्स्वभावो नियामकः ॥ अग्निरुष्णो जलं शीतं समस्पर्शस्तथानिल: । केनेदं चित्रितं तस्मात् स्वभावात् तद्यवस्थितिः ॥ -Quoted by Shri Malvania in his Introduction to
Ganadharavāda, p. 114