Bhagavati-sutra (Viyaha-pannatti)
by K. C. Lalwani | 1973 | 185,989 words
The English translation of the Bhagavati-sutra which is the fifth Jaina Agama (canonical literature). It is a large encyclopedic work in the form of a dialogue where Mahavira replies to various question. The present form of the Sutra dates to the fifth century A.D. Abhayadeva Suri wrote a vritti (commentary) on the Bhagavati in A.D. 1071. In his J...
Part 7 - On the life of the two-organ and other beings
193. Wherein 80 forms have been stated of the infernal beings, for the same positions, the two-, three-, and four- organ beings too take 80 forms. Speciality is that equanimity, knowledge of sense perception, and scriptural knowledge (where relevant) of the two-organ, etc., beings (also) take 80 forms, and this is an additional feature. And wherein 27 forms have been stated of the infernal beings, for the same positions, however, these (i.e., the two-organ beings, etc.) take no form128.
Notes (based on commentary of Abhayadeva Sūri):
128. The two-, three- and four-organ beings together are called vikalendriya. Consideration about them reveals the following peculiarities. They are few in number and take 80 forms. They take mati and śruta knowledge/ignorance. They do not have a mixed outlook, so that their outlook is either right or wrong. In their outlook and knowledge, they take 80 forms. They may be in prior possession of stability, or they, may even acquire it later. For those cases where infernals take 27 forms, the vikalendriyas are without any definite form. They do not take red tinge, and they have only two activities, those of body and of speech, not of mind.