Book Title: Tulsi Prajna 2004 01
Author(s): Shanta Jain, Jagatram Bhattacharya
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati

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________________ Such as blindness, deafness and dumbness, one-eyedness, lameness, dwarfness, hunch-backedness, leprosy and white leprosy. Bhajyam Sutra 54 Blindness, etc. are the illustration of the result of karma. There are two meanings of the word khujja: Hunchback ???and dwarf.3 The meaning of the word vaļabha is also hunch-back. In the context of the configuration of the body, this is coorroborated. The meaning of samatta is leprosy and sabalatta is white leprosy.' 2.55 sahapamāenam anegarūvão joņio samdahāti, virūcvarūve phāse padisamvedei. On account of his non-vigilance he undergoes various births and miseries. The investigator of the results of karma reflects on the truth of rebirth in different species on account of ones own non-vigilance and suffers in multifarious ways. Bhāsyam Sūtra 55 One who investigates the fruition of karma perceives the truth that is expressed in the present, Sūtra. 2.56 se abujjhamāne hatovahate jāi-maraṇam anupariyattamāņe. Ignorant about karma and its results, injured and insulted, he passes through cycles of birth and death. Bhagyam Sūtra 56 Not knowing about pride arising from possessions, and violence due to such pride, as well as the karmic results born of such pride and violence, a person exposes himself to insults and injuries on account of failures and ailments in life. Such person accumulates karma and subjects himself to cycle of birth and death. 2.5 7 jīvīyam pudho piyam ihamegesim māņavānam khettavatthu namāyamāņāņam. The some people, a highly prosperous life is dear, owing to their clinging to land and property. Bhāśyam Sūtra 57 The desires are manifold. Some people desire only or fortune and power. QAT 451 44701 - 47, 2004 C = 87 Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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