Tattvartha Sutra (with commentary)

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

This is Category of the Living which is chapter 2 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 2 - Category of the Living

- Sub-Contents: (+ / -)

Verse 2.1 - Distinctive characteristics of the soul (jīva)

Verse 2.2 - Various kinds of disposition (bhāva)

Verse 2.3 - Two kinds of subsidential disposition (aupaśamika-bhāva)

Verse 2.4 - Nine kinds of destructional disposition (kṣāyika-bhāva)

Verse 2.5 - Eighteen kinds of kṣāyopaśamika-bhāva

Verse 2.6 - Twenty-one kinds of audāyika-bhāva

Verse 2.7 - Three kinds of pāriṇāmika-bhāva

Verse 2.8 - Cognition is the mark of the soul

Verse 2.9 - Two kinds of cognition (upayoga)

Verse 2.10 - Two classifications of souls

Verse 2.11 - Two kinds of transmigrating souls

Verse 2.12 - Another classification of transmigrating souls

Verse 2.13 - One-sensed beings (sthāvara)

Verse 2.14 - The ‘trasa’ beings

Verse 2.15 - Five kinds of senses (indriya)

Verse 2.16 - Subdivisions of the senses

Verse 2.17 - The physical-sense (dravyendriya)

Verse 2.18 - The psychical-sense (bhāvendriya)

Verse 2.19 - The names of the five senses (indriya)

Verse 2.20 - The objects of the five senses (indriya)

Verse 2.21 - The province of the mind (mana)

Verse 2.22 - The possessor of the sense of touch (sparśa)

Verse 2.23 - The possessors of the remaining four senses

Verse 2.24 - Two classes of the five-sensed beings

Verse 2.25 - Transit from one body to another (vigraha-gati)

Verse 2.26 - The lines or rows of successive space-points (śreṇī)

Verse 2.27 - Movement without a bend (avigraha)

Verse 2.28 - Movement with bend (vigraha)

Verse 2.29 - Time required for movement without bend

Verse 2.30 - Passage from one birth to another

Verse 2.31 - The different kinds of birth (janman)

Verse 2.32 - The kinds of seats-of-birth (yoni)

Verse 2.33 - Three kinds uterine birth (garbha-janma)

Verse 2.34 - Birth in special beds (upapāda-janma)

Verse 2.35 - Birth by pontaneous generation (sammūrcchana-janma)

Verse 2.36 - five types of bodies (śarīra)

Verse 2.37 - Subtle bodies (sūkṣma)

Verse 2.38 - Atoms or pace-points (pradeśa)

Verse 2.39 - Bodies having infinite-fold space-points

Verse 2.40 - Bodies that are without obstruction

Verse 2.41 - Beginningless association with the soul

Verse 2.42 - Transmigratory souls

Verse 2.43 - Four bodies can be attained simultaneously

Verse 2.44 - Means of enjoyment (upabhoga)

Verse 2.45 - The gross body (audārika)

Verse 2.46 - The transformable body (vaikriyika)

Verse 2.47 - Attainment of the transformable body (vaikriyika)

Verse 2.48 - The luminous body (taijasa)

Verse 2.49 - The projectable body (āhāraka)

Verse 2.50 - Neuter-sex (napuṃsaka)

Verse 2.51 - The celestial beings are not neuter-sex

Verse 2.52 - The three sexes (signs–veda)

Verse 2.53 - The lifetime of beings

Last Updated: 29 November, 2021

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