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in proportion to the acts and hence the expression. fagsafe, purifying. Dr. Hoernle renders the terms
was able to see &
by psychic force which is a good expression if it can convoy the idea of colours. तयावरणिन्जाणं कम्माणं खओबसमेणं - of the five kinds of knowledge in Jainism अवधिज्ञान is the third and is a supernatural one. means limit, distance; knowledge of an ordinary man is limited to a space which he acutally sees or has seen; by f however, a person can see objects beyond this. space or limit, as for instance, region of five hundred yojanas and grey in the 8thchapter was able to see hells and also the possibility of: his wife being born there. The extent of this aftma may vary from person to person according to his spiri tual capacity, and its acquisition is not limited to. superhuman beings and monks, a pious householder. also being capable of possessing it ( अहवा गुणपडिवन्नस्स अण गारस्त ओहिनाणं समुप्पज्जइ - नन्दी सूत्र ). This अवधिज्ञान is of two. types,,, due to birth in a class of super human beings like gods and creatures born in hell, and खभावसमिभ, due to destruction ( क्षयं ) of acts which prevent its acquisition and suppression (3) of acts. which are not yet ripe to prevent its acquisition (aq निज्जाणं तदावरणीयानां भवधिज्ञानावरणीयानां कर्मणामुदीर्णानां क्षयेण, अनुदीर्णानां उदयावलिकामप्राप्तानामुपशमेन विपाकोदय विष्कम्भणलक्षणेना वधिज्ञानमुत्पद्यते तेन कारणेन क्षायोपशमिकमित्युच्यते - नन्दी सूत्रटीका-page.. 76-77.). The अवधिज्ञान of आनन्द had an extent of five hundred yojanas to the seas in the east, west and south and to the little Himavanta in the north; in the upward direction it reached the , the first of hes
