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Notes
I Schubring comments on this point in his Doctrine of the Jainas, Sec. 181, p.316, "This, however, is but an attempt to incorporate the magic faculties (iddhi, labdhi, siddhi) frequently mentioned in the canon into the system, by the way, in a rather unfitting place, for he who has come to reach the "pure" grade of meditation may be supposed to be above those magic tricks presently to be mentioned. For not only that they do not belong to this grade of meditation, they have nothing at all to do with the road leading to salvation."
2 Yogasūtra III.50 tad-vairagyad-api doṣa-bija-kṣaye kaivalyam
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4 These processes are outlined in the Prajñāpanā XXXVI and Aupapātika. We used here Jñānārṇava 42.48ff in order to clarify their exposition in further details.
5 Refer to the Bhagavati I.1.18, for instance, for slista-gadha bandha.
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susukka-sukkam apaganda-sukkm sankh-indu-egāntavadāya-sukkam ||16|| aṇuttaraggam paramam mahesi asesa-kammam sa visohaittal siddhim gae saim-aṇanta-patte nanena silena ya damsanena||17|| In fact, the entire Chapter 6 of this Satrakṛtanga I belongs to the later age when the Jaina Cosmography began to be outlined.
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