Tattvartha Sutra (with commentary)

by Vijay K. Jain | 2018 | 130,587 words | ISBN-10: 8193272625 | ISBN-13: 9788193272626

This is Right Faith and Knowledge which is chapter 1 of the English translation of the Tattvartha Sutra which represents the essentials of Jainism and Jain dharma and deals with the basics on Karma, Cosmology, Ethics, Celestial beings and Liberation. The Tattvarthasutra is authorative among both Digambara and Shvetambara.

Chapter 1 - Right Faith and Knowledge

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Verse 1.1 - Right faith, right knowledge and right conduct

Verse 1.2 - Right faith (samyagdarśana)

Verse 1.3 - Attainment of right faith

Verse 1.4 - The reality (‘tattva’)

Verse 1.5 - Avoid deviation from established conventions

Verse 1.6 - Attainment of knowledge of the seven categories

Verse 1.7 - Another method of ascertaining knowledge (of seven categories)

Verse 1.8 - Further means of ascertaining knowledge (of seven categories)

Verse 1.9 - Right knowledge (samyagjñāna)

Verse 1.10 - Two types of pramāṇa (valid knowledge)

Verse 1.11 - Parokṣa (indirect knowledge )

Verse 1.12 - Pratyakṣa (direct knowledge)

Verse 1.13 - Synonyms of sensory-knowledge (matijñāna)

Verse 1.14 - Cause of sensory-knowledge

Verse 1.15 - The four stages of sensory knowledge

Verse 1.16 - Twelve kinds of impression (avagraha)

Verse 1.17 - The attributes of impression

Verse 1.18 - There is only impression

Verse 1.19 - Indistinct impression (vyañjanāvagraha)

Verse 1.20 - Scriptural knowledge (śrutajñāna)

Verse 1.21 - Clairvoyance based on birth

Verse 1.22 - Clairvoyance due to destruction-cum-subsidence

Verse 1.23 - Two kinds of telepathy (manaḥparyayajñāna)

Verse 1.24 - Differences between the two kinds of telepathy

Verse 1.25 - Difference between telepathy and clairvoyance

Verse 1.26 - The range of sensory knowledge (matijñāna)

Verse 1.27 - The subject matter of clairvoyance (avadhijñāna)

Verse 1.28 - The scope of telepathy

Verse 1.29 - The range or the subject matter of omniscience (kevalajñāna)

Verse 1.30 - Knowledge arising from their respective instrumental causes

Verse 1.31 - Erroneous knowledge (viparyaya)

Verse 1.32 - Wrong knowledge is whimsical

Verse 1.33 - Standpoints (naya) of Pramāṇa

Last Updated: 29 November, 2021

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