Tattvartha Sutra (with commentary)
by Vijay K. Jain | 2018 | 130,587 words | ISBN-10: 8193272625 | ISBN-13: 9788193272626
This page describes the dimensions of the other lakes and lotuses which is verse 3.18 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. This is verse 18 of the chapter The Lower World and the Middle World and includes an extensive commentary.
Verse 3.18 - The dimensions of the other lakes and lotuses
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of Tattvartha sūtra 3.18:
तद्विगुणद्विगुणा हृदाः पुष्कराणि च ॥ ३.१८ ॥
tadviguṇadviguṇā hṛdāḥ puṣkarāṇi ca || 3.18 ||
The lakes as well as the lotuses on further mountains are each double the magnitude of the previous one. (18)
Hindi Anvayarth:
अन्वयार्थ: आगे के सरोवर तथा कमल पहिले के सरोवरों तथा कमलों से क्रम से दूने-दूने विस्तार वाले हैं।
Anvayartha: age ke sarovara tatha kamala pahile ke sarovarom tatha kamalom se krama se dune-dune vistara vale haim |
Explanation in English from Ācārya Pūjyapāda’s Sarvārthasiddhi:
What are the dimensions of the other lakes and lotuses?
Repetition in ‘taddviguṇadviguṇāḥ’ is intended to convey that these are, each, double the previous one. Double in regard to what? It means double in regard to length, breadth and depth, Mahāpadma is double the length, breadth and depth of Padma. Tigiñcha’s length, breadth and depth is double that of Mahāpadma. The same applies to lotuses also; each lotus is double, in length, etc., of the previous one.
It is like this: lotus Padma is one yojana long and one yojana broad, lotus Mahāpadma two yojana, lotus Tigiñcha four yojana, lotus Kesarī four yojana, lotus Mahāpuṇḍarīka two yojana, and lotus Puṇḍarīka one yojana. (see ‘Trilokasāra’, verse 570).