Mahavira Jain Vidyalay Suvarna Mahotsav Granth Part 1

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14 : SHRI MAHAVIRA JAINA VIDYALAYA GOLDEN JUBILEE VOLUME
(by itself). By whom or what came this variety ? We, therefore, conclude that all this came about by nature (Svabhāva)."
___Of these two verses, the second is quoted in the Sarva-darsanasangraha?, which briefly puts the case of Svabhāvavādins thus :
But an opponent will say, if you thus do not allow adssta, the various phenomena of the world become destitute of any cause. But we cannot accept this objection as valid, since these phenomena can all be produced spontaneously from the inherent nature of things. Thus it has been said :
"The fire is hot, the water cold, refreshing cool the breeze of morn; By whom came this variety ? From their own nature was it born."
In his commentary13 to Uttarādhyayana Sutra (Agadadatta, v. 75) Devendra gives a verse in Prakrit hinting at Svabhāvavāda: "Who paints the peacock? Who provides the swans with their graceful gait? Who infuses the sweet fragrance in lotuses and modesty in those who are born in noble families ?"
In his commentary to Şaddarśana-Samuccayal4 (st. 50), as mentioned by Hiriyanna, Gunaratna quotes as the view of others.:
"Others again say: All the variety of this world is explained by its own nature and there is no karma whatever serving as its basis."
In the Mahābhāratals (śānti-parvan) there are many references to
12 नन्वदृष्टानिष्टौ जगद्वैचित्र्यमाकस्मिकं स्यादिति चेत्-न तद् भद्रम् । स्वभावादेव तदुपपत्तेः । तदुक्तम्
अग्निरुष्णो जलं शीतं समस्पर्शस्तथानिलः ।। केनेदं चित्रितं तस्मात्स्वभावात्तद्व्यवस्थितिः ॥ ---Sarvadarśanasangraha, Cärväkadarśanam, p. 13
(BORI, Poona, ed. 1951) 13 को चित्तेइ भऊरं गई च को कुणइ रायहंसाणं ।। को कुवलयाण गंधं विणयं च कुलप्पसूयाणं ।। -Sukhabodha-Laghuvịtti to Uttarādhyayana Sutra
_ (Agadadatta, v. 75) 14 अन्ये पुनराहु:--मूलतः कमैव नास्ति, स्वभावसिद्धः सर्वोऽप्ययं जगत्प्रपञ्च इति ।
-Gunaratna's Commentary to Saddarśanasamuccaya (st. 50) 15 हन्तीति मन्यते कश्चिन्न हन्तीत्यपि चापरः ।
स्वभावतस्तु नियती भूतानां प्रभवाप्ययी ॥ पश्य प्रह्लाद भूतानामुत्पत्तिमनिमित्ततः । हासं वृद्धि विनाशं च न प्रहृष्ये न च व्यथे ॥ स्वभावादेव संदृश्या वर्तमानाः प्रवृत्तयः । स्वभावनिरताः सर्वाः परितुष्येन्न केनचित् ॥