Heretical Conception of Universe And Jain Critique as Depicted in the Sūtrakṛtāṅga Commentary of Silāṅka

The Sūtrakṛtānga is a very ancient Jain Āgamic text placed second among the Angas. In the Sūtrakṛtānga the themes of the inhabited universe (loka), empty space (alokā), lokāloka, soul (jiva), non-soul (ajiva), one's own doctrines (svasamaya) and the tenets of others (parasamaya) are discussed. Heretical theories of universe : - I According to the Brāhmaṇical

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ललिता शीलाङ्क की सूत्रकृताङ्ग-टीका में संगृहीत जैनेतर सृष्टिवादों का निरूपण करती हैं — ईश्वरकृत सृष्टि, प्रधानवाद, ब्रह्मा से उद्भव — और उनका जैन खण्डन प्रस्तुत करती हैं। घट-कुम्भकार का दृष्टान्त नहीं टिकता, जीवों का कर्म एक साथ ईश्वर का और अपना नहीं हो सकता, और दुःख-विषमता अनुत्तरित रहती है। Lalitha sets out the non-Jaina cosmologies reported in Silanka's commentary on the Sutrakrtanga - creation by Isvara, from Pradhana, by Brahma - and the Jaina refutations. The potter analogy fails, the karma of souls cannot be both Isvara's and their own, and suffering and inequality stay unexplained.

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