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identified with Jawless fishes - the living lamprey eels ),32 Khavallamacchā (a kind of fish-cassyta filiformis), Juga macchā (a kind of fish) Vijjbidiyamacchā (kind of fish), Halimacchā (Hali matyas - a kind of bony fish), Maggarimacchā (a kind of fish, it may be identified with the scaleless Māgur matsya), Rohiyamaccha (Rohita matsya = Labeo rohita, a scaly long fish of reddish tint ), Halisāgarā (Ilisagarā, a kind of scaly, bony fish in Bengal), Gāgarā (a kind of fish, it may identified with Bengal's riverine ghāgrāmatsya ), Vadā ( a kind of fish, it may be identified with Vataka - scaly, riverine, disc-like globular fish ), Vadagarā (a kind of fish of the same kind ), Timi ( whale ) Timingilam (a large fabulous fish), Nakka (Nakra, a kind of fish or Shark or crocodile ?), Tamdulamacchā (a kind of fish), Kanikkāmacchā (kind of fish ), Sālisacchiyamacchā (a kind of fish ), Lambhanamacchă (a kind of fish ), Padāga (a kind of fish ), Padāgātipadāgā (a kind of fish) and others like them.33
It appears from the study of this list of fishes that some of them are jawless, scaleless fishes, e.g. sanhamaccha, some are jawed cartilaginous fishes, e.g. shark, etc., some are bony, scaly fishes, e.g. Rohita (Labeo Rohita ), etc.
Kacchabhā (Tortoises ).
There are two kinds of tortoises, viz. Attthikacchabha ( Bony tortoise called Kālikacchapa in Bengal) and Māmsakacchabha (fleshy tortoise called Chimakacchapa in Bengal)34.
Gāhā (Crocodiles)
There are stated to be five kinds of Gābā, viz. Dili, Vedbalā, Muddhayā, Pulagā and Simägārā.35.
Magara (a kind of Sea-monster regarded as the emblem of Kāmadeva or Gangā ......):
There are stated to be two kinds of Magara, viz. Sonidamagarā and Matthamagarā.36 32. They are cylindrical fish, up to 3 feet long, with no jaws or paired finsh, they
may be lamprey eels. 33. Pannavaņā 1.63 34. Paņņavaņā 1.64. 35. Ibid 1.36. It is true that there are a few varieties of crocodiles. A kind of
fish-eating crocodile is found in Bangladesh, while the man-eating crocodiles are also found in abundance in the Sundarban rivers and her small rivers in
Bangaladesh. 36. Ibid. 1.66
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| SR No. | 001543 |
| Book Title | Jaina Biology |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | J C Sikdar |
| Publisher | L D Indology Ahmedabad |
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