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Birth-places of different classes of Living beings
Classes of living beings
Cold Hot Cold-cum-hot Animate Inanimate Mixed Concealed Revealed
Concealedcum-revealed
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1. Infernal beings
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Inanimate X Concealed 2. Bhavanapati celestial beings X X Cold-cum-hot
Inanimate X Concealed 3. Earth-bodied, water-bodi
ed, air-bodied and plants Cold Hot Cold-cum-hot Animate Inanimate Mixed Concealed 4. Fire-bodied
* Hot X Animate Inanimate Mixed Concealed 5. The two-sensed, the three
sensed, the four-sensed Cold Hot Cold-cum-hot Animate Inanimate Mixed 6. Five-sensed sub-human beings -- -
- Sammūrochima sub-human beings
Cold Hot Cold-cum-hot Animate Inanimate Mixed Garbhaja sub-human beings X X Cold-cum-hot
Mixed 7. Human beings
Sammürcchima human beings
Cold Hot Cold-cum-hot Animate Inanimate Mixed Garbhaja human beings X X Cold-cum-hot
x Mixed
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For Private & Personal Use Only
Revealed
ConcealedX cum-revealed —
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cum-revealed
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Inanimate Inanimate Inanimate
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8. Vānamantara 9. Jyotiska 10. Vaimānika 11. Siddha (Liberated souls)
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Cold-cum-hot * .
Concealed Concealed Concealed
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1. Sutras 742-43 describe the birth-places (yonis) of the one-sensed except the fire-bodied. But the printed text of the commentary
on these sutras contain the wrong reading, viz.'ekendriyānām apkāyikavarjānām...trividhū yonih'(Prajñāpanāțīkā, folio 225 B, 226 A). It is noteworthy that all the manuscripts yield the reading, 'ekendriyānām agnikiyavarjānam. . trividhi yonih.' And this is the correct reading and hence it fits well in the context.
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