Jaina Biology

SR No.: 001543
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: J C Sikdar
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Total Pages: 340
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Science, Biology, & Philosophy
File Size: 19 MB

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Jaina Biology
Three - sensed Animals - the Higner Invertebrates.
Animals with three organs of sense (touch, taste and smell) are of two kinds, viz. subtile and gross ones. Both are either fully developed or undeveloped. They are as follows:
Ovaiya (Upacikā - Bugs, Hemiptera ), Rohiniyā (Red ants, Formicidae, Hymenoptera ), Kunthu (Fleas, Hemimetabola, a kind of insect - animalcules), Pipiliyā ( Ants – Formicidae, Hymcuoptera ), Uddamsagā ( a kind of bugs ), Uddehiyā (white ants ), Ukkaliyā ( a three - sensed being ), Uppāyā (Spring - tails, Aptera, Ametabola ), Ukka dā (a kind of three - sensed animals ), Tanahārā (plant - lice ), Kātthahārā (Termites, a kind of white ants - Neuroptera, Hemimetabola ), Māluyā (a kind of three - sensed insects ), Pattahārā (leaf-lice sucking the sap of the leaf), Tanavimtiyā (a kind of three - sensed animals parasites in grass ), Pupphavistiyā (a kind of three - sensed animals parasites in flower ), Phalavimtiyā (a kind of three - sensed animal parasites in fruit ), Biyavimtiya (a kind of three - sensed animals parasites in seed ), Tedūranamajjiyā (a kind of three-sensed animals parasites in Tedura Tausamimjiyā (cucumber-seed weevils and lice), Kappāsattbisamimjiyā (Cotton - seed weevils and lice ), Aptera, (Ametabola ), Hilliyā (a kind of three-sensed animals ), Jhilliyā (a kind of three-sensed animals ), Pāhuyā ( a kind of three-sensed animals ), Subhagā (a kind of threesensed animals), Sovacchiyā (a kind of three -- sensed animals ), Suyavimtā (a kind of three-sensed animals ), Imdikāiya (a kind of
sensed animals), Imdagovayā (a kind of three-sensed animals ), Urulumcagā (a kind of three-sensed animals ), Kotthalavāhagā (a kind of three - sensed animals ), Jủyā (Yūkā = louse ), Hālahalā (a kind of three -- sensed animals ), Pisuyā (a kind of three - sensed animals ), Tidugā7 (a kind of three - sensed animals ), Satāvari (a kind of threesensed animals ), Satavāiyā (Satapādikā, centipeds ), Gombi, ( a kind of three-sensed animals ), Hatthisomdā (a kind of three-sensed animals), and others like them.8
There are eight lakh varities and birth-places, etc. of these threesensed animals - developed and undeveloped. Some of these threesensed animals, namely, Kunthu (hemiptera ), Pipilika (Ants-Formicidae), 6. Uttaradhyayana Sūtra 36.136; Paņņa vaņā 1.57 ; Tattvārthadhigama Sūtra II. 24.4
Uttaradhyayana 36,13€. 7. Tindug. s shining like lead, originate in the kernel of the cotton secd. 8. Paņņņvaņa 1,57.1.
;Uttarādbyayana Sūtra 36, 137.138 ; Tattvārthadhigama Sūtra, 11. 24 9. Pannāvaņā Sūtra 1.57.2.