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 3 - Pain from and exhaustion of karma
Q. 12. Bhante! Are the living beings with great pain and great exhaustion, or with great pain and little exhaustion, or with little pain and great exhaustion, or with little pain and little exhaustion?
A. 12. Gautama! Some living beings are with great pain and great exhaustion, some are with great pain and little exhaustion, some others are with little pain and great exhaustion, and still others are with little pain and little exhaustion.
Q. 13. Why are they so?
A. 13. Gautama! A monk who has courted a pratimā is one with great pain and great exhaustion; infernal beings of the sixth and the seventh hells are with great pain and little exhaustion; a monk fixed rock-like is with little pain and great exhaustion; and gods in the anuttara (top most) vimānas are with little pain and little exhaustion.
Couplet
Great Pain, Cloth soaked in mud
And in wheel dirt, Anvil,
A handful of Hay, an Iron-ball,
Instruments, Beings with great Pain.
Bhante! So they are. Glory be to the Lord. So saying, Bhagavān Gautama paid his homage and obeisance to Śramaṇa Bhagavān Mahāvīra and having paid his homage and obeisance, he withdrew to his seat.
Chapter One ends.
Notes (based on commentary of Abhayadeva Sūri):
(There is no commentary available for this section).