Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 1

Author(s): Hemchandracharya, Helen M Johnson
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra

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by destruction and suppression. Manahparyaya is twofold: rju and vipula. The distinction between them may be understood to lie in purity and not being lost.262 Keyalajñāna has as its sphere all substances and their modifications, perceives every thing, is infinite, one (i.e., undivided), and beyond the pale of the sense-organs.
Right-belief (585–619) Attachment to the principles told by the scriptures is called 'right-belief' (samyakśraddhāna=darśana), and is produced by intuition or instruction of a guru.788 It is said that in creatures belonging to the whifipool of existence without beginning or end, the duration of the karmas called knowledge-obscuring, belief-obscuring, feeling, and obstructive is thirty crores of crores of sāgaropamas; twenty of family and body-making, and seventy of deluding.254 From the law of the rolling of a stone in a mountain-stream, all karmas gradually perish of their own accord from the realization of their fruit. After rooting up the duration of karmas for twenty-nine, nineteen, and sixty-nine crores of crores of sāgaras (respectively), creatures arrive at the stage of the granthi (knot) by means of the
completely; 4) vardhamānaka, its sphere of influence increases greatly; 5) anayasthi in some cases it is fluctuating or intermittent; 6) avasthită, constant and unfluctuating. T. 1. 23, com.
352 583. Manahparyaya is the power to read other persons' thoughts. Vipula perceives the finest details of mental processes, and its possessor never loses it. The spelling 'paryaya or oparyāya is used indiscriminately.
258 585. For samvaktva see T. 1. 1. ff. O. of J. p. 55.
254 587. These are maximum figures. Ayus..is not given here, but it is 33 sāgaropamas. The minimum of feeling is 12 muhiletas (one=48 min.; of family and body-making 8 mubūrtas; and of the others an antarmubūrta. T. 8. 15-21.