Some Jaina Canonical Sutras

Author(s): Bimla Charn Law
Publisher: Royal Asiatic Society

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AUPAPATIKA SOTRA (OVAVAIYA SOYA)
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souls above the mundane world (loy'-agga-paitthāņā havanti
-sec. 120). The sūtra is ultimately concerned to give us a clear description of the destiny of the siddhas or perfected ones. The eternal and immutable spiritual world in which they live after the completion of their mundane career is variously called kevalakappa, isipabbhāra, taņu, taņutaņu, siidhi, siddhālae, mutti, multālue loy'ugge, loyagga thūbhiyā (lokāgrasthūpikā) and loy'agga-padibujjhaņā. Isipabbhāra is the inost familiar name for this world. It is far above the worlds of gods and Brahmās. It is nevertheless called a world by itself (pudhavi) where the siddhas dwell for all time to come. It is absolutely free from birth, decay, death, and the cycle of births and rebirths. The siddhas while they live on earth cannot altogether get rid of physical troubles, the duration of life and their clesignation by name and family. They utterly destroy all that binds the soul to this earth and contaminates it. They too carry on their routine work of the day but when they attain to the final state of perfection and emancipation and pass away forever from mundane existence, they make an end of all pain. Thus with the Jainas the ultimate state of individual existence is an eternal and unchanging world which is the abode for the liberated souls. It is nowhere pointed out how the liberated souls pass their days in that world whether in a state of activity or in that of passivity (secs. 160-167).
The sūtra gives us an interesting list of Vedic branches of learning or subjects of study consisting of the Riuveda (Rgveda), Yajuveda (Yajurveda), Samaveda, Aharvaņaveda (Atharvana-veda), Itihāsa the fifth V'edu, Nighantu the sixth Veda, six Vedāngas, six Upāngas, works on rahassa (rahasya), Satthitainta (şastītantra) and many other Brahmanical treatises. The six Vedāngast are said to have been represented by the auxiliary works, sikkhā (phonetics), kappa (ritual), vāguraņa (vyākarana, grammar), chanda (metre), nirutta (exegesis), and joisu (jyotisa, astronomy-astrology) (Aupapātika Sūtra, sec. 77). It (sec. 76) speaks of the two allied systems of Sankhya and Yoga, while the Jain Anuyogadvāra Sūtrø (sec. 41) mentions Buddhusāsanam (Buddhism), Vaisesiyam (Vaiseșika system), Logāyatum (Lokāyatam), Purāņas, V'yākaruņa, Nātakas, Vaisikas, Kodiliāyam or kodillayam (Arthaśāstra of Kautilya), the Kāmusūtras of Ghodayamuham (Ghotakamukham), etc. The same sūtra (sec. 107) refers to the development of vatthuvijjā (vāstuvidyā) or science of
1 Really we find wovon Vedāngas instead of six, if Samkhana or arithmetic is included in them.