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Source: academia.edu: Tessitori Collection I

Samakitivipākagāthā (समकितिविपाकगाथा) is the name of a work dealing with the Karma section of Jain Canonical literature.—The Samakitivipākagāthā (in Prakrit) is included in the collection of manuscripts at the ‘Vincenzo Joppi’ library, collected by Luigi Pio Tessitori during his visit to Rajasthan between 1914 and 1919.—The Samakitivipāka-gāthā is a short tract deals with ‘the attainment of samyaktva’ as detailed for instance in Glasenapp, The doctrine of Karman pp. 70-72, with the processes that gradually lead to the reduction of deluding karmas forming knots. In the nivṛtti-karaṇa process, the soul makes three heaps (puṃja) of the mithyātva matter (puggala): an impure one, a semi-pure one and a pure one (beg. of text). ‘If the semi-pure heap reaches udaya, the soul attains the mixed belief, and is in the third guṇasthāna. In this the soul remains for the fraction of a muhūrta and then reaches samyaktva or mithyātva. Finally, those who acquire kṣayopaśamika-samyaktva become aviratas, deśaviratas or sarvaviratas’ (glasemapp 72).

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Jainism is an Indian religion of Dharma whose doctrine revolves around harmlessness (ahimsa) towards every living being. The two major branches (Digambara and Svetambara) of Jainism stimulate self-control (or, shramana, ‘self-reliance’) and spiritual development through a path of peace for the soul to progess to the ultimate goal.

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Partial matches: Gatha.

Full-text: Nivritti, Nivrittikarana.

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