Tattvartha sutra

Author(s): Umaswati, Umaswami, D S Baya
Publisher: Agam Ahimsa Samta Evam Prakrit Samsthan

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• Avagrahehāvāyadhāraṇāḥ || 15 ||
Mati-jñāna or sensory cognition occurs in four stages - Avagraha or apprehension, īhā or speculation, avāya or judgement and dhāraṇā or retention. (15)
Bahubahuvidhaksiprāniśritāsandigdhadhruvāṇām
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setārāṇāmi ||16|||
It (Mati-jñāna), while cognizing in the four given steps avagraha, īhā, avaya and dhārana, has for its object something that is one or many, possessed of one or many forms, capable of being grasped slowly or quickly, with or without reason, with or without doubt, and inevitably or uninevitably. (16)
TATTVARTHA SŪTRA: THE LIBERATING PATH: 9
• Arthasya ||17||
These four steps (avagraha, īhā, avāya and dhāraṇā) – grasp an artha - that is, an entity. (17)
Vyañjanasyāvagrahaḥ || 18 ||
Na caksuranindriyābhyām || 19 ||
In the case of vyañjana (cognition through physical contact between an object and the sense organ) there ensues vyañjanā -vagraha or contact actuated apprehenson. However, in the case of cognition through visual sense (caksu) and the mind (mana) such a contact actuated apprehension (vyañjanā vagraha) does not take place. (18-19)
Śrutam matipūrvami dvayanekadvādaśabhedam|| Scriptural knowledge is invariably preceded by Sensory percep-tion. It is classified either into two types Primary and Secondary (canons) or in many types (the secondary canons are of many types such as Kālik or timely studiable, Utkālik or any-time studiable, etc, or into twelve types (the primary canons are twelve in number.
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