Tattvartha Sutram

Author(s): Adishwarprasad Jain
Publisher: Adishwar Jain

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SUTRA 7 निर्देश स्वामित्य साधनाऽधिकरण स्थिति निधानत ॥७॥ Nirdesa svamıtva Sadhanadhı karana sthiti vidhanatah.
Adhigama is attaind by (considering a Principle, or any substance with reference to its fragt Nordesh (Description, Definition), la Svamıtva (Possession, Inherence, A1 Sadhan (cause), fra Adhikarana (Place), fixfa Sthatı, (Duration), and furt Vidhana (Division)
Everything can be known by being treated in these six ways, eg man He may be described as a rational animal, the qualities of rationality and animality inhere in all human beings, the cause of being a man is the sum-total of his own karmic energies, which acting through his parents caused him to be born in the world, his birth depends on his birth-place being such as human beings can be born in it; his duration, ie his life is determined and limited by his age or suryahi Ayu karma; and according to his nationality he may be divided into English, French, German, American, Japanese, etc etc,
We shall subject right belief to this six-fold treatment
fee's Nirdesha Right, belief is belief in things, ascertained as they are
afte Svamitva Generally it inhere sin souls, which are capable of attaining liberation, and only in those who have got a mind, 1 e, are ममनस्क Samanasha
AN4 Sadhan Cause of right belief, 1 e
(1) PR Abhyantara, internal It is the making inoperative of the THE Darshana Mohanıya, or the belief-obscuring karmas, and Anantanubandhi Kashaya, the 4 over feeding passions
(2) 97 Bahyya, external. This is of two kinds -
(1) Faris Nisargaja, intutive, eg rememberance of past lives, enduring of great pain, contemplation of the image of the fear Jinas or Tirthankaras, and observation of the miraculous powers of the celestial beings
(11) 1973 Adhigamaja, acquired, eg, by other precept or the scriptures
afficu Adhikarana, is also
(1) TC Internal It is the soul itself upon which right belief depends,