________________ Verse 18 जीव का नाश अथवा उत्पाद नहीं है - The soul (jiva) undergoes neither destruction nor origination - सो चेव जादि मरणं जादि ण णट्ठो ण चेव उप्पण्णो / उप्पण्णो य विणट्ठो देवो मणुसु त्ति पज्जाओ // 18 // स च एव जातिं मरणं याति न नष्टो न चैवोत्पन्नः / उत्पन्नश्च विनष्टो देवो मनुष्य इति पर्यायः // 18 // अन्वयार्थ - [सः च एव] वही [ जातिं] जन्म को और वही [ मरणं याति ] मृत्यु को प्राप्त करता है, तथापि [न एव उत्पन्नः] वह उत्पन्न नहीं होता [च ] और [ न नष्टः ] नष्ट नहीं होता, [ देवः मनुष्यः ] देव, मनुष्य [इति पर्यायः ] ऐसी पर्याय [ उत्पन्नः ] उत्पन्न होती है [च] और [ विनष्टः ] विनष्ट होती है। The same worldly-soul (jiva) gets reborn that had died; in reality, there is neither destruction (vyaya, nasa) nor origination (utpada) of the soul (jiva). Only the modes (paryaya) of the human-being (manusya) and the celestial-being (deva) have undergone destruction (vyaya, nasa) and origination (utpada). EXPLANATORY NOTE The modes (paryaya) are sequential and exist for a certain time. These are seen, from the point-of-view of the mode - paryayarthika naya - as the destruction of the existing form and origination of the new form. From the point-of-view of the substance - dravyarthika naya - the substance (dravya) is eternal (nitya); it has the modes (paryaya) which . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
