ĀTMĀNUŚĀSANA – PRECEPT ON THE SOUL by Ācārya GUṆABHADRA (ca. 818–900 A.D.) [16]
Gātha 14
When right faith (samyagdarśana) arises in a potential soul by listening to all the twelve departments (dvādaśāṅga) of the Scripture (āgama), it is called vistārasamudbhava. When right faith (samyagdarśana) arises in a potential soul due to an object, it being the instrumental (nimitta) cause, detailed in the aṅgabāhya [note 1], without reading the Scripture itself, it is called arthasamudbhava. When right faith (samyagdarśana) arises in a potential soul due to the study of the Scripture (āgama, dravyaśruta) – the twelve departments (dvādaśāṅga) and the fourteen miscellaneous concepts called the aṅgabāhya – it is called the avagāḍha samyagdarśana [note 2]. When right faith (samyagdarśana) gets to the level of complete faith in substances as seen in perfect and direct knowledge – omniscience – it is called the paramāvagāḍha samyagdarśana [note 3].
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Note 3:
The paramāvagāḍha samyagdarśana occurs to the Omniscient (kevalī) – the possessor of perfect, direct knowledge.
Note 2:
The avagāḍha samyagdarśana occurs to the śrutakevalī – the possessor of perfect, indirect knowledge.
Note 1:
The fourteen miscellaneous concepts (prakīrṇaka), external to the twelve departments (dvādaśāṅga), are called aṅgabāhya.