Tattvartha Sutra (with commentary)

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

This page describes the celestial beings which is chapter 4 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 4 - The Celestial Beings

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Verse 4.1 - The four kinds of celestial beings (deva)

Verse 4.2 - The thought-colouration of the first three classes of celestial beings

Verse 4.3 - The subclasses of the celestial beings

Verse 4.4 - Ten grades of celestial beings

Verse 4.5 - Exceptions in the grades of celestial beings

Verse 4.6 - The two lords (indra)

Verse 4.7 - The pleasures of the celestial beings

Verse 4.8 - Pleasures of the deva beyond the Aiśāna kalpa

Verse 4.9 - Pleasures of the rest

Verse 4.10 - The subclasses of the residential beings (bhavanavāsī-deva)

Verse 4.11 - The subclasses of the peripatetic beings (vyantara-deva)

Verse 4.12 - The subclasses of the stellar beings (jyotiṣka-deva)

Verse 4.13 - The movement of the luminary beings (jyotiṣī-deva)

Verse 4.14 - The divisions of time (kāla-vibhāga)

Verse 4.15 - The luminary deva outside the human region (manuṣyaloka)

Verse 4.16 - The heavenly beings (vaimānika-deva)

Verse 4.17 - The two divisions of Vaimānika-deva

Verse 4.18 - The kalpa are one above the other

Verse 4.19 - The sixteen Kalpa, nine Graiveyaka and five Anuttara

Verse 4.20 - The characteristics of the Vaimānika deva

Verse 4.21 - Motion, stature, attachment and pride

Verse 4.22 - Thought-colouration of the fourth class of Deva

Verse 4.23 - Prior to the Graiveyaka are the Kalpa

Verse 4.24 - Those who have the Brahmaloka as their abode

Verse 4.25 - The divisions of the Laukāntika deva

Verse 4.26 - Two final births

Verse 4.27 - The abode of subhumans (tiryañca)

Verse 4.28 - The lifetimes of the deva

Verse 4.29 - Lifetime in the first two Kalpa among the heavenly beings

Verse 4.30 - Lifetime in the next two Kalpa

Verse 4.31 - Lifetimes of Deva from Brahmaloka to Acyuta kalpa

Verse 4.32 - Lifetimes of remaining Deva

Verse 4.33 - The minimum lifetime in Saudharma and Aiśāna kalpa

Verse 4.34 - The minimum lifetime of the rest

Verse 4.35 - Lifetime from the second infernal region onwards

Verse 4.36 - The minimum lifetime in the first earth

Verse 4.37 - The minimum lifetime of the residential beings (bhavanavāsī-deva)

Verse 4.38 - The minimum lifetime of the peripatetic beings (vyantara-deva)

Verse 4.39 - The maximum lifetime of the peripatetic beings (vyantara-deva)

Verse 4.40 - The maximum lifetime of the stellar beings (jyotiṣka-deva)

Verse 4.41 - The minimum lifetime of the stellar beings (jyotiṣka-deva)

Verse 4.42 - The lifetime of all Laukāntika deva

Last Updated: 29 November, 2021

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