________________ 210 NAYAKUMARACARIU. 4. 88. The objection against the 'Sunya8. 28. TJA OT-Ransom for his vada' is that if everything were, oid, what territories. was the propriety of ascetic practices ? 2. 5. जुत्ति probably means here युति, i.e. &. 8-3. The Kaul school, acc. to our confluence of planets that is considered author, held that the five elements, earth, auspicious. water, fire, air and space were identical 8. &. TUTTO "As Samkranti is dear to with Brahma, Visnu, Rudra, Isvara and a beggar Brahmana'. Samkranti is winter Siva respectively. For the claims of the solstice which occasion is observed as a Kaul teachers see Jasa. 1,6; Karpura festival when alms are freely given and Manjari, Act I. Brahmanas are fed. &. 8-88. Various objections are raised 3.8-80, 'Does not that bow and that against the school that considers the woman render resplendent the person of supreme principle or the soul as devoid a man, the bow endowed with a string of qualities ( Niskala or Nirguna). giving a good grip, made of a good 9. 8. 'Can boiled grains be turned back bamboo and with an arrow fixed to it, and the woman, virtuous, slender, noble into great millet or butter into milk? born and rich ?' How can the accomplished' ( absolved ) wander again through the cycle of births 8. C. hsfe see 1, 12, 3 notes. 8. &. For the Bhavanas of an ascetic, see involving the burden of taking and Mulacara chapt. IX. abandoning the body'? 4.4. The Svetambara belief that the The personality of Siva, which acc. to sages even after attaining omniscience' the author, is accepted by Gautama bear clothes and take food, is here and Kanada, is a contradiction in criticised. terms, i.e. an impossibility (gaganara binda) as shown in the following lines. 4. 9. This is the criticism of the Ksanika 1. 4. 37 4 FETOTU ET3-The reference is vada of the Buddhists against which the following objections are raised - to the Pauranic account of Siva's cutting off the head of Brahma (Aja ). He is (i) continuous knowledge is not said to have thrown the head at a spot possible in a being completely decaying and renewing every moment, in Benares which is known as kapala mocana after the incident. . For example, a man gone out could not return to the same spot if he did 6. B.TTF 3 etc. The reference is to not continue essentially to be the Vyasa the reputed author of the puranas, same man, nor could he lay his hand who is said in Mahabharata to have on a thing which he had previously cohabited with the wives of Vicitravirya. 8. 9. The reference is to the injunction kept somewhere. (ii) The relation of cause and effect Cafeant &HT PEHa Hala'. in certain cases is such that the latter 83.82-83. These are the twenty five follows only during the subsistence tattvas of the Sankhya system. of the former; for example, the cow 2.8-. We have here the tenets of the and the milk or the lamp and the Nastika-vada of Barhaspatya, the cen. lamp-black. In such cases if the cause tral principle of which is that life is prohad passed away the effect could not duced by the conglomeration of matter follow. without any metaphysical self. P.P.AC. Gunratnasuri M.S. Jun Gun Aaradhak Trust
