PSYCO239 Lecture Notes - Ajiva, Jiva, Dravya
15 Mar 2014
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Jina mahavira was the first person to transmit the scriptures. in our era, it was jina rsabha to propound it, then by all the prophets after him. Rsabha came before mahavira. he was first in this cycle to propound these scriptures. first of 24 jinas. sacred scripture called agama. it has three main oral branches: Angabahya commentaries dialogues a devastating famine hits northern india around 4c bce and the old jaina canon (purva) is lost. our knowledge of the agama becomes sketchy. Drstivida in the anga has all the oldest jina teaching. the svetambaras believe that the essence of this text is in the. Cosmos composed of six eternal substances called the dravya. knowledge of the six dravya is an important step towards. ___freeing yourself____ the dravya are classified in one of two groups: Pudgala, know just pudgala, all variants necessary for pudgala to work. to free yourself, you need to free yourself from pudgala.
