Niyam Sara

SR No.: 034367
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Vijay K Jain
Publisher: Vikalp
Total Pages: 412
Language: Hindi, English
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Book_English
File Size: 4 MB

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Niyamasāra
नियमसार
Air-bodied (vāyukāyika)
7 lakh-crore Plant-bodied (vanaspatikāyika)
28 lakh-crore Beings with two-senses (dvīndriya)
7 lakh-crore Beings with three-senses (trīndriya) - 8 lakh-crore Beings with four-senses (cauindriya) - 9 lakh-crore Five-sensed water-animals (jalacara) - 12.5 lakh-crore Five-sensed birds (khecara)
12 lakh-crore Four-legged animals (caupāya)
10 lakh-crore Reptiles like snake sarpādi)
9 lakh-crore Celestial beings (deva)
- 26 lakh-crore Infernal beings (nāraka)
- 25 lakh-crore Human beings (manusya)
- 12 lakh-crore The total number of lineage (kula) comes to 197.5 lakh-crore (19750000 x 10000000) = 197500000000000.
The 84,00,000 kinds of seat-of-birth (yoni) can be ascertained from the Scripturel: “The one-sensed souls with common bodies from eternity - nityanigoda, other one-sensed souls with common bodies - itaranigoda, earth-bodied (prthivīkāyika), water-bodied (jalakāyika), fire-bodied (agnikāyika) and air-bodied (vāyukāyika) beings are of (originate from) 7,00,000 yoni, each. The yoni of trees and other vegetation are 10,00,000. The yoni of all the beings with incomplete senses (vikalendriya) are 6,00,000. The seat-of-birth (yoni) of celestial beings, infernal beings, and five-sensed animals are 4,00,000, each. The yoni of human beings are 14,00,000.”
There are fourteen classes of jīvas, called jīvasamāsa or jīvasthāna. (see p. 41-42, ante; also Āsādhara's Dharmāmsta Anagāra, p. 236.)
Further, there are fourteen material principles for inquiring into the existence of souls-called, mārgaņāsthāna2:
1 - Acārya Umāsvāmi's Tattvārthasūtra - With Explanation in English from Acārya Pujyapāda's Sarvārthasiddhi, sūtra 2-32, p. 94.
2 - Āsādhara's Dharmāmrta Anagāra, p. 238.
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