Tattvartha sutra

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

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TATTVARTHA SŪTRA: THE LIBERATING PATH : 11
• Dvividhoavadhih || 21 ||| Avadhi-jñāna (Clairvoyant perception) is
(Bhavapratyaya and Yathoktanimitta). (21)
of two
types
• Tatra Bhavapratyayo nārakadevānām || 22 ||| (Of these two) the Bhavapratya Avadhi-jñāna or the clairvoyant
cognition owing to a living-being's birth in a particular class is found among the hellish and the heavenly beings. (22)
• Yathoktanimittaḥ sadvikalpaha sesāṇāni || 23 ||| The other, cause or quality actuated clairvoyant cognition, which
manifests itself on subsidence or destruction of clairvoyant cognition obstructing karma (Ksāyopaśamik or Gunapratyaya Avadhi-jñāna), is of six types and is found amongst the other, human and sub-human living-beings. (23)
• Rjuvipulamali Manahparyāyah || 24 || Manahaparyāya-jñāna is, again, of two types - Rjumatī
(simple) and Vipulamatī (abundant) that is generic and specific telepathic cognition. (24)
• Visuddhyapratioätābhxãi tadvisesah || 25 || The later is purer than the former and once manifested it does not
retract while the former may do so. (25)
Visuddhiksetrasvāmivisayebhyoavadhimanah parya
yayoḥ || 26 || Clairvoyant and telepathic perceptions differ from each other in
respect of 1. Purity, 2. Spatial extents, 3. Their possessors and 4. Their subjects. (26)