Mahavira and his Teaching

Author(s): C C Shah, Rishabhdas Ranka, Dalsukh Malvania
Publisher: Bhagwan Mahavir 2500th Nirvan Mahotsava Samiti

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JĪVAKACINTĀ MAŅI, A CHANNEL OF MAHĀVĪRA'S TEACHINGS 39
salvation and reaches the next gunasthāna, the anivstti-badarasamparāya gunasthāna and fights with some more of his karmas. This fight too is explained through an allegorical expression. It is said that in the battlefield where the fight is going on “seven people fell down unconscious; sixteen of them fell down after fighting. Eight people were overthrown when the elephant kicked with its leg. The neuter sex fell down in the field) crying, the female sex and the six non-passions also fell under the wheel of kind thought."1
Here the poet refers to the annihilation of some more karmas. The four anantānubandhī kaşā yas and the three darşana mohanī ya karmas are the first seven people who fell down in the field. The sixteen people who fell down after fighting with Jivaka are the sixteen karmas.2 which are supposed to be destroyed in the beginning of the ninth gunasthāna, the anivstti-bādara-samparāya gunasthāna. The eight people who were kicked by the leg of the elephant are the eight passions, the four Pratyākhyānāvarana karmas and the four apratyākhyānāvarana karmas. Along with these karmas, Jivaka also eradicates the female sex, the neuter sex the six nokașayas,3 the puruṣaveda4 and the three sam jvalana kașā yas. 5
After this Jivaka ascends to the tenth gunasthāna in which he eradicates the fourth sam jvalana kașā ya, the sam zvalanalobha. The eradication of these four is also described through another allegorical expression as follows: the kurothan, the Mānan, The Māyan the Ulõpan who is covetous, came opposing with pointed fingers.
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Jivakacıntāmaņi verse 3075. (1) nidrânidräkarma (u) pracala pracalākarma (111) styānagļddh karma (iv) tiryag gatz kerma (v) naraka gatz karma (vı) ekēndriya nāma karma (vii) duindriya nama karma (viu) trindriya nama karma (1x) caturindriya nama karm (x) iryaganupūrvi namakarma (xi) narakānupūrvi nama karma (xii) sthavarnamakarma (xiii) sūkshma nama karma (xiv) sådhāraña nama karma (xv) ätapa nama karma and (xvi) uddyotanamakarma. Jivakacıntāmaņı verse 3076. Ibid. verse 3077. Jivakacıntāmaņi verse 3079.
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