Tattvartha Sutram

Author(s): Adishwarprasad Jain
Publisher: Adishwar Jain

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First Chapter
SUTRA 13 न चक्षुर निद्रियाभ्याम् ॥ १६ ।
Na Chakshu ranındriya bhyam. This is not possible to the cyc or the mind (It is possible to the remaining four senses )
Thus the kinds of percepcion of indeterminable objects are 48 ie the 4 senses can cach know as indeterminable tbing in its 12 aspects of Bahu, etc
Thus the total number of kinds of sensitive knowledge is 288+48-336
SUTRA 20 श्रुतंमति पूर्वद्वनेके द्वादश भेदम् ॥ २० ॥ Shrutam matıpurvam dvyaneka dvadasha bhedam
Shruta or Scriptural knowledge is always preceded by sensitive knowledge It is of two kinds, one of which has twelve and the other many divisions
A man hears the word Ship tlus is sensitivc-knowledge
The sound raises the qualitics of a Ship in his mind, as he niay have read or heard of them, this is Scriptural knowledge
It is of two kinds mafara Anga-prayishta contained in the Angas There are 12 Angas
Angas-Vahya, out of the Angas These non-Anga Scriptures are of many kinds
Shruta literally means that which is heard (Sri to lear) Scriptural knowledge is of two kinds
(1) Verbal, lettered (47#Fi Aksharatmaka) (2) Non-verbal, letterless (FETAĦ Anaksharalnaka)
Verbal scriptural knowledge is derived from words wluch are composed of letters (FER Akshara), spoken or written, as when the eye sees the written word or the ear hears the Spoken word "soul" The seeing and learing gives us merely sensitive knowledge (Mati jnana) What more we think about the meaning and connotation cf the word "soul" is scriptural knowlcdge. It is called verbal, because It is derived from our sensitive knowledge of the word "soul",