The Doctrine of the Jainas, Described after the Old Sources c8.158

c8.158

§80. Beyond the sphere of the ohi-nāṇa there is no longer any wrong cognition, i.e. resting on a non-spiritual basis, but only different grades of infallible orthodox cognition. The maṇapajjava-nāṇa following next (Nandi 99b) is the most colourless among all five, while ohi and vibhanga were the most stimulating for imagination as far as the latter can be spoken of. It occurs only with human beings who in their spiritual career stand on a high level (saṃjaya appamatta iḍḍhi-patta).¹ It is inferior to the ohi-nāṇa in that it is restricted to ∞ Aggregates with ∞ space units, to the human sphere (maṇussa-khetta, §122), to the minute part of a paliovama and to the ∞ small fraction of all existing accidents (savva-bhava). But it reaches the thoughts (maṇogaya bhāva) of the beings with five senses as expressed by the name of manaḥparyāya "changing condition of the inward sense".² The sub-sections of the two kinds of cognition are named by Umāsvāti T. 1, 25-29, for instance imperishability (apratipāta), not specially mentioned by Nandi. But together with the latter he speaks (T. 1, 24) of two grades of the maṇapajjava-nāṇa, the one being achieved by a more simple and the other by a more comprehensive way of visionary thinking (ujju-mai and viula-mai, Ṭhāṇ. 49b), the latter being more extensive, purer and brighter. For an example the Nandicuṇṇi speaks of a ghaṭa somebody thinks of, and of the different qualities of the same (Nandivṛtti 108b).