Religion:Pancastikayasara
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| Pancastikayasara | |
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 Pancastikayasara | |
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| Religion | Jainism |
| Author | Kundakunda |
| Period | 1st century B.C. |
| Verses | 180 |
Pañcastikayasara (en: the essence of reality), is an ancient Jain text authored by Acharya Kundakunda.[1] Kundakunda explains the Jain concepts of dravya (substance) and Ethics. The work serves as a brief version of the Jaina philosophy. There are total 180 verses written in Prakrit language.[2] The text is about five (panch) āstikāya, substances that have both characteristics, viz. existence as well as body.
Āstikāya
The five āstikāya mentioned in the text are :—[3]
- Jīva (soul),
- Pudgala (matter),
- Dharma (medium of motion),
- Adharma (medium of rest), and
- Akasa (space)
Notes
- ↑ Jaini 1991, p. 33.
- ↑ Chakravarti 2001.
- ↑ Chakravarti 2001, p. 3.
References
- Kundakunda, Acharya; Chakravarti, Appaswami; Upādhye, Ādinātha Neminātha (2001), Ācārya Kundakunda's Pañcāstikāya-sāra, Bharatiya Jnanpith, p. 16, ISBN 978-81-263-1813-1, https://books.google.com/books?id=wnoRAQAAIAAJ
- Jaini, Padmanabh S. (1991), Gender and Salvation: Jaina Debates on the Spiritual Liberation of Women, University of California Press, ISBN 0-520-06820-3, https://books.google.com/books?id=GRA-uoUFz3MC
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