The Doctrine of the Jainas, Described after the Old Sources c11.89

c11.89

² Acc. to Abhay. we are concerned with the shape of the universe.—In Yogaśāstra 7-10 Hemacandra has some different division of the dharma-dhyāna (though it is not before 10, 7; 11, 1, that he says that it relates to the latter). The four subvarieties piṇḍastha, padastha, rūpastha, and rūpātīta dh.-dhy. advance from bodily objects of meditation to magic characters, to the image of the Arhat and, finally, to the bodiless paramātman (comp. BÜHLER, Hc. p. 84, partly after BHANDARKAR who follows Sakalakīrti's Tattvārthasāradīpikā, Report 1883-84, p. 110f.). In Yog. 11 Hc. then renders the śukla-dhy. with the division as offered in the Uvav., if only for the sake of completeness, see third next footnote. He wrote the Prakāśas 1-4 along with the following for practical use, and, what is more, probably in order to oblige his prince (comp. BÜHLER p. 36) he dealt with experiments in Pr. 5 and 6 which have nothing at all to do with the Jain doctrine, and in 7-10 with such to which he attached this relation only artificially. For the above definition of rūpa-stha makes it quite plain that the four subvarieties are non-Jain by origin.