Trishashti Shalaka Purusha Caritra
by Helen M. Johnson | 1931 | 742,503 words
This is the English translation of the Trishashti Shalaka Purusha Charita (literally “The lives of the sixty-three illustrious People”), a Sanskrit epic poem written by Hemachandra in the twelfth century. The work relates the history and legends of important figures in the Jain faith. These 63 persons include: the twenty four tirthankaras , the t...
Tattva 5: Āśrava (channels for acquisition of karma)
Five Senses
- Sparśendriya.
- Rasanendriya.
- Ghraṇendriya.
- Cakṣurindriya.
- Śrotrendriya.
Four Passions
Violations of Mahāvratas
- Prāṇātipāta.
- Mṛśāvāda.
- Adattādāna.
- Abrahma.
- Parigraha.
- Manoyoga.
- Vacanayoga.
- Kāyayoga.
Twenty-five Minor Activities
- Kāyikī-kriyā, unrestrained bodily activity.
- Ādhikaraṇikī-kriyā, injury by weapons to animals.
- Prādveṣikī-kriyā, hatred for jīva and ajīva.
- Pāritapanikī-kriyā, causing injury to self or others from disgust with world, anger, etc.
- Prāṇātipātikī-kriyā, ill-usage of prāṇas.
- Ārambhikī-kriyā, beginning things such as ploughing, etc.
- Pārigrahikī-kriyā, acquiring money, etc.
- Māyāpratyapikī-kriyā, deceitful action.
- Mithyādarśanapratyapikī-kriyā, relying on false doctrine.
- Apratyākhyānikī-kriyā, failure to reject certain things.
- Dṛṣṭiki-kriyā, looking at something from love, etc.
- Spṛṣtikī-kriyā, touching with the hand.
- Prātītyakī-kriyā, action caused by karma.
- Sāmantopanipātikī-kriyā, pleasure from praise of possessions.
- Naisṛṣṭikī-kriyā, destruction of life by machinery, etc., at another’s order.
- Svāhastikī-kriyā, destruction of life through an animate or inanimate agent.
- Ānayanikī or ājñāpaniki-kriyā, profession of too much knowledge about tattvas, etc.
- Vaidāraṇikī-kriyā, making known others’ bad conduct.
- Anābhogikī-kriyā, absent-mindedness in taking or putting down objects.
- Anavakāṅksāpratyayikī-kriyā, practices causing strife in this world or next.
- Prāyogikī-kriyā, failure to observe 3 yogas.
- Samādāna-kriyā, action by which 8 karmas arise.
- Premikī-kriyā, affection arising from deceit and greed.
- Dveṣīkī-kriyā, hatred arising from conceit and anger.
- Īryāpathikī-kriyā, action arising from bodily activity of Kevalins.
See: First dvāra of Praśnavyākaraṇa.