Sthaviravali

Author(s): Ratnaprabhvijay
Publisher: Jain Granth Prakashak Sabha

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and Paryaya qafe change in form, are the common general properties of a substance. Dravya is stable; Paryäya is instable. Guna Tur attribute is the natural quality of a substance. Paryăya is the quality acquired in due course. This world, the soul and substance, are without a beginning and without an end. At the completion of time- limit of the Bhava * Existence, in which a soul is born as a Deva de acelestial being, a Manushya Agou a human being, a Triyancha fara a lower animal or as a Năraka alta a hellish being, in this Samsāra palt, in accordance with his good or evil actions in previous life, the existence during that life ends and the Soul assumes another life. Birth as a god or a human or a lower animal or as a helļish being is the Paryäys of a Soul. During every existence of life Atmâ far the Soul is always present. It is permanent and hence all the souls, exist as a Dravya and also as a Paryaya.
The Diksá ate Initiation into the Order of Monks - of Indrabhùti Gautama took place under the following circumstances: -
At the time, when Sramana Bhagävăn Mahāvíra acquired Kévala Gnana na Perfect Knowledge, outside Jrambhaka gãma Nagara F TTH Ant on the banks of Rijuvãluka Nadi ऋजुवालिका नदी, a wealthy Brahmina named Somila सोमिल was preparing for a great Yagna um Sacrifice to gods and he invited numerous Brahmins including eleven highly talented Acäryas
of whom the three brothers--1 Indrabhūti ya fa 2 Agnibhūti . अग्निभूति and 3 Vayubhuti वायुभूति, were well versed in the four
teen kinds of knowledge. Indrabbüti liad a doubt about the existence of Jiva sa Soul, Agnibhüti bal doubts abont Karmas and Vãyubhûti had a doubt that the body and the soul are inseparate; the 4 th Vyakta sh and 5 Sudharma Evå had an aggregate of five hundred pupils under each of them and they were very learned; 6 Mandita Afuga and 7 Maurya putra Alag brotbers, with three hundred and fifty pupils under each of them, had a doubt about Bandha and gods and four Brahmins 8 Akampita अकम्पित 9 Acala bhrati अचलभ्राता 10 Metarya मेतार्य