Note on Hemchandras Abhidhanchintamani and Sanskrit Karmavati

Author(s): Nalini Balbir
Publisher: ZZ_Anusandhan

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अनुसन्धान-५४ श्रीहेमचन्द्राचार्यविशेषांक भाग-२
one-sensed (ekendriya)
beings
|prthivio ambuo
tejas
1-134 135-162 163-171 172-175 176-267
vāvuo
mahiruhao beings
268-272
beings
273-275
two-sensed (dvindriya) three-sensed (trindriya) four-sensed (caturindriya) five-sensed (pancendriya)
beings
276-281
beings living on earth (sthala-ga) 282-381
living in the sky (kha-ga) |382-409 living in water (ambu-ga) |410-423
The wealth of vocabulary contained in this section is remarkable, as it is in several Jaina texts, and would need further exploration: the influence of local languages is felt in several animal names which have no equivalent in Sanskrit.
Section V Nārakakanda, the shortest of the lexicon, provides essentials of the Jaina view on the subject: the names of the seven hells from top to bottom and the number of residences (narakāvāsa) in each of them.
In this manifesto of Jaina doctrine, which echoes the beginning of the author's Trişasțišalākāpuruşacaritra in many respects, there is an area which has special significance and is dealt with at length, namely that of time (II.40cd-76). We are immediately immersed in a distinctly Jaina-atmosphere:
kālo dvividho 'vasarpiny-utsarpiņi-vibhedataḥ (II,4lab) This half-verse is found identical in the Trişasti. (1.2.112ab: golden age, life of Sāgaracandra and Priyadarśanā). In the two works the subsequent stanzas describe the “twelve-spoked