Book Title: Sudha Sagar Hindi English Jaina Dictionary
Author(s): Rameshchandra Jain
Publisher: Gyansagar Vagarth Vimarsh Kendra Byavar
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A nupurvya vipā ka prayogya ksetra - 346 90 faut yrity - Succession fruition experiental quar- ter. Anvikșiki - steiferani - Science of logic. Aprcchani - 341YTT - Interrogatory. A pta - 37167 - Authentic; who is free from wordly blemishes is Apta.
Y.C. P 103. Apta is the lord of the universe and the benefactor of all creatures. He extricates the world from the ocean of suffering by teaching the fundamental truths, and is therefore to be regarded as the lord of universe, whom the three worlds obey. He is pure and free from the eighteen defects common to all living creatures such as hunger, thirst, fear, passion, birth, old age, disease, death, anger, sorrow, sleep etc., and is endowed with infinite knowledge, and is the only source of words of wisdom. Passion, hatred and ignorance are the cause of telling a lie, but as the apta is free from these, he has no occasion for uttering a falsehood. He resembles in shape the heterogeneous universe and master of the worlds. Yas. 248. 371697 - An authority (apta) is he who knows a thing under consideration as it is and described it in accordance with his knowledge. His saying is free from inconsistency.
P.4/4-5. आगम - Siddhasena Divakaradefines Sabda or verbal testimony as the valid knowledge that arises from a right understanding of the words (Tattvagrahitya) denotative of real
things and are not contradicted by perception or by one's own accepted system. Words characterised by the above mentioned two characteristics come from the mouth of an āpta - i.e. authority. What is the purpose of verbal testimony ? It is to instruct, to relate to the hearers the nature of reality, to be beneficial to all men and to remove false notions. 37167 - He who is free from all defects and is possessed of all pure attributes is the supreme authority. The defects are hunger, thirst, fear, anger, attachment, délusion, anxiety, oldage, disease, death, perspiration, fatigue, pride, indulgence, surprise, sleep, birth and restlessness. One free from all these defects and possessed of sublime grandeur such as omniscience is called the perfect one. Words proceeding from his mouth, pure and free from the flow of internal inconsistency, are called a gama (i.e. verbal testimony). In that ā gama the principles are enunciated. Here an absence of hunger and thirst and some such things constitute some of the marks of a pta (i.e. reliable person). Thus this definition of a pla is based on the Digambara tradition. It is noteworthy that Kundakunda recognise coherence or internal consistency as an essential feature of a true scripture. Ā ptopajña - 31677451 - The word of Tirthamkara.
A ptavakya . आप्त वाक्य - Reliable assertion. Apurva spardhaka - अपूर्व स्पर्द्धक - Those molecules, the fruition of which has been enfeebled b the thought activity in this stage.
