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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal. Letters. 1947

1948

The first kind hides knowledge from us (jiidnavaraniya) the second kind prevents us from beholding the true faith (dariandvaraniya) the third kind causes us to experience either the sweetness of happiness or the bitterness of misery (vedaniya) the fourth kind bemtises all the human faculties (mohaniya) the fifth kind determines the length of time which a jiva must spend in the form with which [...] Soul (jiva) the inanimate things (ajiva) the binding of the soul by karma merit (punya) demerit (papa) that which causes the soul to be affected by sins (dirava) the prevention of sins by watchfulness (satnvara) annihilation of karma (Karma-kfaya) and final deliverance (who) are the nine truths.4 The doctrine of nine terms (navatattva) represents the main system of Jainism.5 Jiva and ajiva [...] He who obtains righteousness by the study of the sutras believes by the study of the sutras. [...] (72) By the motionless state of the self (4ailesi) 2 he first stops the functions of his mind then the functions of the speech then those of the body at last he ceases to breathe. [...] Living beings are of two kinds: those still belonging to the sarn seira and the 1 The Buddhist idea of contamination of mind by the influx of impurities from outside illustrated by the simile of a piece of cloth dyed blue red yellow or the like would seem to have some bearing on the Jain doctrine of the six leitycle which is merely hinted at in the Siitrakrtchiga (I 4 21) where a Jain sain
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Pages
46
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-i unknown view
Frontmatter
ii-ii unknown view
Principles of Jainism
1-18 B.C. Law view
A Corpus of Original Sources of Later Bengal History
19-20 Jadunath Sarkar view
Mathurā in Ancient India
21-i B.C. Law view
The Central Asiatic Expedition of Chandragupta Vikramāditya
31-39 Buddha Prakash view
Backmatter
i-iv unknown view

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