Book Title: Schools and Sects in Jaina Literature Author(s): Amulyachandra Sen Publisher: Vishwa Bharati CalcuttaPage 47
________________ SCHOOLS AND SECTS IN JAINA LITERATURE The thirty-two schools of Conscious-maintainers or Uddhamaghatanikas. They believed that the soul after death passed into various states of existence, viz., conscious or unconscious, subject to decay or not subject to decay, neither conscious nor unconscious, and all in respect of the form, finitude, different modes of consciousness, and happiness of the soul. The seven schools of Annihilationists or Ucchedavādis. They held that the soul is annihilated after death and they identified the soul with the body, essence of the body, mind, infinite space, infinite consciousness, or as being bondless or being beyond ideas. 38 The five schools of Nirvanists or Ditthadhammanibbänavadas. They believed that a soul was capable of obtaining complete emancipation in this visible world by full enjoyment of the pleasures of the senses or by each of the four stages of dhyana. 110 Cf. Sātavādins supra. notes 90-93, 106. Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only 110 www.jainelibrary.orgPage Navigation
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