The Doctrine of the Jainas, Described after the Old Sources c8.211

c8.211

Pannav. 26 and 27 state how many kinds a soul binding a certain kind is able to bind, resp. to feel at all. The statements given, however, do not confine themselves to the soul and its multiples (*jīvā*), but they also concern the different classes of the beings. On the other hand the proof is given numerically only: we come to know as possibilities the *aṭṭhaviha-bandhaga*, *sattaviha-b.*, *chavviha-b.*, *cauvviha-b.*, *egaviha-b.* and both the *abandhaga* and the *aṭṭhaviha*-etc. *vedaga*. But it is not until we read the commentaries that we learn what we have to understand by it. Besides we find it in the later Karman literature, comp. the columns of *bandha* and *udaya* in v. GLASENAPP's representation of the *guṇa-sthāna*,¹ the canonical fundamentals of which we find in these chapters of Pannav. Their author, most naturally, knew well enough which kinds of Karman dropped out accordingly. If now those Karman specialists state to have taken their subject-matter from the 12th Anga lost to us, then we must conclude that also the Pannav., since it comprises what was at hand, went back to this source.