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Prof. Dr. A. N. Upadhye
Śramanic teacher is an adept in this art. The result is that the Kuvalayamala has bę. come a huge repository of religious discourses put in the mouth of religious Dignitaries; and the elements of story will not suffer much, even if these are excluded from the narration. All such discourses may be put together here to see what a vast range of Jaina dogmatics is covered by Uddyotana. First the pages and lines are noted, and against them are enumerated the topics under broad heads : 35.30 f.: The major types of Hims, and the reasons or pretexts with which they are
committed. 36.14 f.: Hells, the tortures etc. therein. 39. 1 f.: The sub-human births (according to the number of Indriyas) and the miseries
etc., therein. 40.13 f.: Human birth, its causes, grades, miseries etc. 42.29 f.: Gods, their anxieties etc. 44.15 f.: A discourse on Krodha, Māna, Máyā, Lobha and Moha, and their fourfold
gradation (Anantānubandhi etc.) with illustrations. 90.8 f.: An explanation of Abhavya, Kala-bhavya and Bhavya. 92.12 f.: A conventional description of (Saudharma-) Kälpa and (Padma-) Vimana, the
birth of a Jiva there, the local environments etc. 95.12 f.: Some details of Pājā; see also 132.27 f. 95.24 f.: Five Paramest hins and the duties of laymen and monks. 96.28 f.: Details of the Samayasarana ; See also 217.21 f. 97.27 f.: A discourse on Jiva, its nature, its relation with Karman, its migration through
various births and its liberation. 142.21 f.: A discussion about Dharma, its practice and its objective. 177.28 f.: A graphic glorification of Samyaktva. 185.22 f.: A detailed picture of hellish, human and divine beings : their acts and
consequences. 192.27 f.: Symbolically spiritual interpretation of various vocations etc. 201.33 f.: A succinct exposition of the fundamentals of Dharma. 209.18 f.: Rarity of religious enlightenment in human birth, explained by Yuga-śamilā
dpstanta. 217.27 f.: Discourse on twofold Dharma. 219. 9 f.: A discourse on five Mahā vratas and the attendant Bhavanās. 227.19 f: An exposition of twelve Anuprekşās. 230. 5 f.: A Samyag-drsti and his traits.
.20 f.: Elaboration of the types of Karmas and their consequences. 242. If.: An exposition of Udaya, Ksaya, Kşayopaśama of the Jñanavaraniya and
other Karmas with reference to Dravya, Kşetra, Kāla, Bhāva and Bhava. 243.13 f.: A contrasted picture of the conditions in the Aparavideha and Bharata
ksetra.
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