Jaina Sutras 02 Uttaradhyayan Sutra and Sutrakritang Sutra

SR No.: 011060
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hermann Jacobi
Publisher: Max Muller
Total Pages: 500
Language: English
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UTTARÂDHYAYANA.
70. By conquering greed he obtains content, &c. (as in 67, substituting greed for anger). (70)
71. By conquering love, hate, and wrong belief he exerts himself for right knowledge, faith, and conduct, then he will cut off the fetters of the eightfold Karman ; he will first destroy the twentyeight kinds of Karman, which are productive of delusion; (then) the five kinds of obstruction to right knowledge 2, the nine kinds of obstruction to right faith, and the five kinds of obstacles (called Antarâya): the last three remnants of Karman he destroys simultaneously; afterwards he obtains absolute knowledge and faith, which is supreme, full, complete, unchecked, clear, faultless, and giving light (or penetrating) the whole universe; and while he still acts 4, he acquires but such Karman as is inseparable from religious acts •; the pleasant feelings (produced by it) last but two moments : in the first moment it is acquired, in the second it is experienced, and in the third it is destroyed; this Karman is produced, comes into contact (with the soul), takes rise, is experienced, and is destroyed; for all time to come he is exempt from Karman. (71)
72. Then when his life is spent up to less than
1 There are sixteen kashầyas, nine nô-kashầyas, and three mô hanîyas.
? These are the obstacles to the five kinds of knowledge : mati, sruta, avadhi, mana hparyâya, kêvala.
3 They are: the obstacles to kakshurdarsana, to a kakshurdarsana, to avadhidarsana, and to kêvaladarsana, and five kinds of sleep (nidrâ). Concerning Antaraya, see p. 193.
4 Sayôgin, i.e. while he has not yet reached the fourteenth gunasthana, the state of a Kêvalin.
6 Airyapathika.
6 I.e. when he has become a Kêvalin, as described in the preceding paragraph.