Book Title: Tattvartha Sutra
Author(s): Sukhlal Sanghavi, K K Dixit
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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________________ 154 Ratnaprabha. The āvāsas look like huge canopies, the bhavanas look like towns. The bhavanas are shaped like a circle on the exterior side, like a square on the interior, while their bottom is shapped like a Puskara-karnikā (=the finger on the tip of an elephant's trunk). TATTVĀRTHA SŪTRA All the Bhavanapatis are called Kumāras like a Kumāra (i.e. a youngster) they are handsome to look at and delicate; moreover, their movement is light and lovely and they are of a playful disposition. All the types of Bhavanapatis have got since their very birth a natural property comprising symbol etc., a property that is different in the case of a diferent type. For example, in the crown of the Asurakumāras there is affixed the symbol of head-jewel. With the Nagakumāras the symbol is that of serpent, with the Vidyutkumāras that of thunderbolt, with the Suparṇakumāras that of garuda, with the Agnikumāras that of jar, with the Vatakumāras that of horse,1 with the Stanitakumāras that of vardhamana or a pair of earthen bowls, with the Udadhikumāras that of crocodile, with the Dvipakumāras that of lion, with the Dikkumāras that of elephant. In the case of Nāgakumāras etc. the symbol concerned is affixed in their ornament. All the types have got a different clothing, weapon, ornament etc. 11. The Types and Sub-types of the Vyantaras: All the Vyantaras reside in the bhavans and āvāsas situated in the upper, middle as well as lower Loka-portions. On their own or as impelled by others they visit diferent places. Some of them even go to the extent of attending upon the human beings. They are called Vyantara because they reside in the various antaras or intervening spaces that come to be formed within the mountains and caves as also within the forests. Of these the type Kinnara is divided into ten sub-types-viz. Kinnara, Kimpurușa, Kimpurusottam, Kinnarottam, Hṛdayangama, Rūpaśālin, Anindita, Manorama, 1. The text Sangrahani attributes the symbol of horse to the Udadhikumāras and that of crocodile to the Vatakumāras. Gāthā 26. Jain Education International For Personal & Private Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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