________________ Pancastikaya-samgraha endowed with infinite qualities, and who have won over the worldly-existence. EXPLANATORY NOTE At the outset, for propitiousness (mangala), Acarya Kundakunda makes obeisance to all the 'Jina'. Each 'Jina' is the Supreme Lord, also called the Tirtharkara - the 'World Teacher' or the 'Arhat' or the 'apta'. The Tirtharkara vanquishes the four inimical (ghati) karmas due to delusion (moha), attachment (raga) and aversion (dvesa). He possesses the supreme sense-independent, infinite-knowledge (anantajnana, kevalajnana) and infinite-perception (anantadarsana, kevaladarsana), besides other qualities. The Tirtharkara, on completion of his present mode (paryaya) of life and in absence of the karmas which lead to wandering in different states-of-existence (gati) or whirling around in the cycle of births and deaths - sansara - attains liberation (moksa). Reflection on the qualities of the 'Jina' is called the psychic-obeisance (bhava-namaskara). Only the Tirthankara is the Supreme Lord; he only is worshipped by the lords (indra) of the three worlds. The Scripturel mentions one hundred lords of the three worlds: भवणालयचालीसा विंतरदेवाण होंति बत्तीसा / कप्पामरचउवीसा चंदो सूरो णरो तिरिओ // Hatant dai to 40 gas, a cal $ 32 555, docyanit fat oto 24 575, welfasota dal o que sit alase # 2 575, h eet dol 1 575 (Tant) site faefazi 1 565 (fierasta), te ga 575 There are a total of one hundred lords: forty of the residential (bhavanavasi) deva, thirty-two of the peripatetic (vyantara) deva, twenty-four of the heavenly (kalpavasi) deva, two - the sun (surya) and the moon (candra)- of the stellar (jyotiska) 1. See Sri Brahmadeva's Sanskrit commentary on Acarya Nemicandra's 'Dravyasamgraha', verse-1, p. 5. ........................
