Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c14.s2.t1.4
Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c14.s2.t1.4
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c14.s2.t1.4
Kriyā denotes the existence of soul (jīva) and those who admit the existence of soul are called Kriyāvādins.¹²⁵ It is stated that one who knows the tortures of beings below in hell, one who knows the influx of sin and its stoppage, one who knows misery and its annihilation is entitled to expound the kriyāvāda.¹²⁶ Kriyāvāda comprised one hundred and eighty schools¹²⁷