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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The Organisation of the Human Body
sthulantra paniktih),9 the excretary organs-kidney 10 (taṇuyamta ?) and large intestine (thulamta ),11 nine orifices (navasoya ),12 skin (camma),13 a skeleton14 of three hundred pieces of bones,15 articulated by one hundred sixty joints, 16 bound together by nine hundred sinews of ligaments, 17 plastered over with five hundred pieces of muscles 18, enclosed with outer cuticle,19 with orifices,20 here and there, constantly dribbling and trickling like cracked or perforated pot,21 infested by helminths22 and always oozing from the nine orifices23 (wax from the ears, rheum from the eyes, snot from the nostrils, undigested food, bile, phlegm and blood from the mouth and feaces from the anus and urine from the urethra through the penis24 and sweating through ninety nine lakh of hair follicles,25 five sense-organs 26 (car, eye, etc.) and 170 9. Tandula Veyäliya, (Thulanite), 16. p. 35.; Kalyāṇakaraka, 3.4, p. 31.
(amorupakkasaya
sthūtantra)
10. Tanuyamta? Its function indicates that it is
kidney (Je se anuyamte tenam pasavane parinamai", Tandula Veyaliya, 16, 35. But literally tanuyamta means small intestine where all eaten food is churned and digested.
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11. Je se thulamte tena uccare pariņamai. Tandula Veyaliya 16, p. 35
12. Navasoe purise ikkārāsasoya itthiya, Ibid. See also Kalyāṇakāraka, 3.5, 10, 11, 12. 13. Tandula Veya'iya, p. 41. "Atthiyakaḍhine siranharubamḍhane maṁsacammalevammi/"
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid,, 16, p. 35. Tinni atthidāmasayaim,' "Kalyāṇakāraka 3.2, p. 38.
16. "Satthi samdhisayam", Tanduiaveyaliya 16, p. 35. Kalyaṇakaraka mentions three hundred joints.
17. "Nava phārusa yaim", Tandula Veyaliya 16, p. 35.; Kalyāṇakaraka, 3.2, p. 36. 18. Panca pesi sayaim purisassa tisunaim itthiyae visuṇāim pamḍagassa /"
Ibid. The woman has 470 pieces of musles and the neuter has 480 pieces of muscles.
19. Atthiyakaḍhine siranharubamdhane maṁsacamma levammi/" Tandula Veyaliya. p. 41.
20. Navaśrotas two ears, two eyes, two nostrils, one mouth, one anus or rectum (payu) and one urethra (through penis) (upastha) and skin also is the other orifice, Tandula Veyaliya, 16, p. 35. p. 4.
21. Evam sravadbhinnaghatopaman deho
ravadvaragalanmalaḍhyah /, Svedam vamatyutkaṭaromakupa ryūkāsalikṣṭapadaśca tajjaḥ / Kalyāṇākāraka, 3.12, p. 32.
22. Ibid.
23. Tandula Veyaliya, 16, p. 35; p. 38. Kalyanakaraka 3.5, 10, 11, 12.
24. Ibid.
25. "Nava nauim ca romakuvasayasahassaim" Tandula Veyaliya, 16, p. 35.
26. Pņņavana Sutta, Indriyapada, 15, "Soimdiyattãe cakkhurimdiyattãe ghanmdiyattae jibbhimdiyattäe phaimdiyattae /", Tandula Veyaliya 3, p. 7.