Some Jaina Canonical Sutras c20.2

c20.2

The Jīvājīvābhigama is the third upāṅga which consists of twenty sections. It deals with the fundamentals of Jainism and is wanting in philosophical speculation. It contains the doctrine of the living and non-living things. It mainly points out the various classifications of jīva¹ and ajīva.¹ The former comprises all entities endowed with life, while the latter includes those which are devoid of life. It is in the form of questions and answers like the fourth upāṅga called the Pannavaṇā. It gives a description of the universe in all its details and supplies a comprehensive classification of the living beings. The section dealing with the continents and oceans is an interpolation according to Winternitz.² It is connected with the Jambudīvapannatti which