The Doctrine of the Jainas, Described after the Old Sources c8.168

c8.168

§83. Following the subject of imagination we may proceed to the next paragraph by considering the will. It is represented by the synonyms (Viy. 56b; 149a; 571b; 643; 654a; 657a; 777a; Ṭhāṇ. 19b) *uṭṭhāṇa kamma bala vīriya purisakkāra-parakkama*.¹ By Mahāvīra’s coining *atthi*² *uṭṭhāṇe i vā*, up to *p.-p.i vā* (Viy. 56b) this sequence has gained a fundamental importance also for the Buddhists (Angutt. 3, 195) causing the *kiriyā-vāi* to be distinguished from the *akiriyā-vāi* and two other so called *samosaraṇa*, i.e. the *s.* of the agnostics (*annāṇiya*) and the *s.* of the ritualists (*veṇaiya*) (Viy. 30), as one acknowledging the free will as a moral principle.³