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:200 Jinabhadra Gani's
[ The sixth ang object required from anywhere in the three worlds. The maney procured by sale, was appropriated by the merchants concerned.
According to another theory, these shops were managed by Vyantaras themselves and not by merchants. And hence, the money procured happened to be their property. It has been mentioned in the Agamas that such Universal Shops were situated at Ujjain and Broach.
It was proposed :--"Let us approach such a shop and demand no-jiva as distinguished from jiva and a-jiva. If the god in charge supplies us the same, the existence of no-siva will be accepted. But if he refuses to believe in such an entity as "mo-jiva" we shall have to believe unanimously that no-jiva does not exist. Why waste time? Let us approach the Universal Shop and settle the dispute.”
King Balasri, Rohagupta and all the members of the Royal Assembly, consented to this proposal and proceeded to the Ku. trikāpaņa. They demanded one hundred and forty-four objects by means of a number of questions but they could not get, no-siva as distinguished from " jiva" and "a-jiva." Consequently, Ror hagupta was defeated. 191-194 (2486-2489)
The one hundred and forty-four questions referred to above are counted as follows:--
मू-जल-जलपानिल-नह-काल-दिसा-ऽऽया मणो य दबई । भण्णंति नदेयाइं सत्तरस गुणा इमे अण्णे ॥१९५॥२४९०॥ रूप-रस-गंध-फासा संखा परिमाणमहमह-पुहत्तं च । संजोग-विभाग-परा-ऽपरत्तबुद्धी सुहं दुक्खं ॥१९६॥२४९१॥ इच्छा-दोस-पयत्ता एत्तो कम्मं तयं च पंचविहं । उक्लेवण-वक्खेवण-पसारणाऽऽकुंचणं-गमणं ॥१९७॥२४९२॥ सत्ता-सामाणं-पिय-सामण्णविसेसया-विसेसो य । समबानो य पयस्था छ छत्तीसप्पमेया य ॥१९८॥२४९३॥
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