Pancastikayasara
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Religion | Jainism |
Author | Kundakunda |
Period | 1st century B.C. |
Verses | 180 |
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Pañcāstikāyasāra ("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.
A modern English translation was published by Vijay K. Jain in 2018.[3]
Āstikāya
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The five āstikāya mentioned in the text are :—[4]
- Jīva (soul),
- Pudgala (matter),
- Dharma (medium of motion),
- Adharma (medium of rest), and
- Akasa (space)
Notes
[edit]- ^ Jaini 1991, p. 33.
- ^ Chakravarti 2001.
- ^ Jain 2018.
- ^ Chakravarti 2001, p. 3.
References
[edit]- Kundakunda, Acharya; Chakravarti, Appaswami; Upādhye, Ādinātha Neminātha (2001), Ācārya Kundakunda's Pañcāstikāya-sāra, Bharatiya Jnanpith, p. 16, ISBN 978-81-263-1813-1
- Jaini, Padmanabh S. (1991), Gender and Salvation: Jaina Debates on the Spiritual Liberation of Women, University of California Press, ISBN 0-520-06820-3
- Jain, Vijay K. (2020). Ācārya Kundakunda's Pańcāstikāya-saṃgraha – With Authentic Explanatory Notes in English (The Jaina Metaphysics). Dehradun: Vikalp Printers. ISBN 978-81-932726-5-7.