Navtattva Prakaran

Author(s): Shriprakash Pandey
Publisher: Parshvanatha Vidyapith

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have attained dravyamokşa. After being freed from the karmicencrustations the soul moves upaward to the end of lokākāśa and remains in its pure form (anntacatuștaya) at the siddhāśilā, an abode of liberated souls.
Navatattvaprakaraṇa incapsulates all these nine tattvas with their descriptions, divisions, subdivisions etc., Its first seven verses explicitly deal with concept of jīva (soul). From verse 8 ta 4 ajīva, 15 to 17 auspicious karmas, 18 to 20 inauspicious karmas, 21 to 24 influx of karmic particles, 25 to 33 stoppage of karmic particles, 34 to 36 annihilation of karmic particles, 37 to 42 binding of karmic particles with the soul, 43 to 50 liberation and from 51 to 59 verses with prakīrņaka adhikāra. Therefore, from the point of view of subjectmatter this text is a manual of nine categories of truth and has an important place in Jaina literature. The entire Jaina literature is divided into four expositions (anuyogas)(i) Substantial exposition (dravānuyoga) dealing with mainly concept
of substances and their divisions, (ii) Mathemetical exposition (gaạitānuyoga)- dealing with numerical
discriptions, division-subdivisions of time, space and pudgala. (iii) Jural teliological exposition (caranakaraṇānuyoga)- dealing with
code of conduct of Householders and monks and defferent Jurals. (iv) Exposition of religious parables (dharmakalhānuyoga)-dealing
with religious stories and paradigm of morality.
Navtattvaprakaraṇa comprehends all these four expositions. As substances like soul, non-soul etc. are delt herein, so it is a part of substantial exposition. As it describes in detail the numerical description of divisions subdivision- of matter and its atoms, space, time along with its largest and minutest part, it comprehends mathemetical exposition. Dealingwith restraints (gupti), carefulness (samitis), afflictions (parişaha) and ten fold yati dharma etc., it becomes the part of exposition of Jural teliological exposition. Similarly, as it consists of the details of the liberated ones, it also has contents of the exposition of religious parables. About the text
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