Vaishali Institute Research Bulletin 2

Author(s): G C Chaudhary
Publisher: Research Institute of Prakrit Jainology & Ahimsa Mujjaffarpur

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prefix were available in the kutrikā paņa. This offered victory to Śrīgupta, the orthodox Jaina teacher and Rohagupta was defeated and banished from the kingdom.
We may now analyse the thirty-six items on which the questions were based. The account proceeds:
I-bhū-jala-jalaņā' nila naha kala disà' ya mano ya davraim bhannamti navetăim.
--Earth, water, fire, air, space, time, direction, soul and mindThese nine are called substances.
II - sattarasa gunā ime anne Tüpa rasa gandha phasă samkha parimāņa madha pudhattam ca samjoga vibhaga para paratla buddhi suham dukkham iccha desapayatta.
--The qualities are seventeen in number--colour, taste, smell, touch, number, size, separateness, conjunction, disjunction, remoteness, proximity, intellect, happiness, misery, desire, aversion and effort.
III-etto kammam tayam ca pamcavidham /
ukkhevaņa’ vakkhevaņa pasarana' kumcanai gamaņam!
The third category karma-action is of five kinds; upward motion, downward motion, extension, contraction and movement in general.
IV-satlasāmannam pi ya samannavisesat a
Generality is of two kinds the highest and the lower one i.e. generality-cum-particularity.
V-VI- Viseso yaj samavāya ya patattho
Particularity and inherence (along with those enumerated earlier) are the categories.
chacchattīsappabheda ya//
--- Viseşāvasyak abha sya, 2972-5. Thus the six categories, along with their subdivisions whenever possible, admit of thirty-six varieties.
A glance at the Vaiseşikadarśana shows that the first three categories of the above list exactly correspond with Vaišeșika Sūtras I, i. 4, I. i. 5 and I. i. 6. The last three also do not materially differ from the Vaiseșika Sūtra position. Now as the questions were framed by the contending parties on the basis of the above, the categories must have been well known at their time. It cannot be held that Rohagupta invented them. In that case his opponent would not have accepted them without examination. The correct position seems to be that both