Book Title: Outlines of Jainism
Author(s): J L Jaini, F W Thomas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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________________ 140 OUTLINES OF JAINISM from the point of view of place, time, nature, etc. Account is also given of the Sapta-bhaigi, or seven ways of considering things, and their use in taking a comprehensive view of things. It has 6,000,000 padas. 5. The Jñūnu-pruvuda-pūrra contains a detailed account, analysis, and subject-matter of the mati, śrutu, aradhi, manah-paryuya, and kerala-jñana and of ku-mati, ku-śruta, aud vithaigani-jnuna ; i.e. of the five kinds of right, and three kinds of wrong, knowledge. It has 9.999,999 padas. 6. The Satya-pravida pūrva deals with silence and speech, with the twelve kinds of speech, kinds of speakers, and with many kinds of false speeches and ten kinds of true speeches. It has padas. 7. The Atma-pravāda-pārra deals with the soul as the doer of and enjoyer of the fruits of action, from the point of view of nischaya and ryarahāra, i.e. of philosophy and common sense. From the commonsense point of view jira has four or ten prūnas; and from the point of view of philosophy only one, namely, consciousness ; and is such as has been, is, and will be, imbued with priinu. From the common sense point of view it does good or bad deeds; from the philosophical standpoint it remains absorbed in its own nature. In common-sense it is said to speak falsely or truly ; in reality it has no speech. It is called prūnin, because the prūnas are found in it both internally and externally, both in philosophy and in common sense. In reality it enjoys nothing ; in common-sense it enjoys the fruits of its actions, good or bad. In common-sense it absorbs the material kurmas and is material ; in reality it is not matter. From both points of view it exists at all times and knows all the things of the past, present, and future. In common sense it fills the body, or by imagination the whole world ; but in reality by knowledge it may be said to fill the whole world, and is therefore called l'ishnu. Althongh in commonsense it is worldly, yet in reality it is itself, i.e. identical with its own knowledge and faith, and therefore is called Swayam-thi. Althongh it is corporeal, becanse it has andārika (natural) and other bodies ; vet in reality it is incorporeal. In commou-sense it is called man (mūnara) because of its present incarnation in a human body; but in reality it should be called münara because of its possession of mind, or the faculty of knowing. And many other things concerning the sonl are given in this püriu. It has 260.000.000 padas. 8. The Karmu-pruruda-pārra gives the various conditions, such as bandha (bondage), sattă (reality), udayu (mature appearance),

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