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
water-bodies, produced by water, 10 where as the babies suck the mother's milk, but when they grow older, they eat boiled rice, etc."11 Actually speaking, digestion is intra-cellular or extra cellular as found in Jaina Biology. According to modern Biology. "Digestion may be intracellular-food particles, may be taken into the cell by phagocytosis and digestive enzymes may act within the cell or extra cellular-the enzymes are secreted by the cells that produce them into some cavity, typically that of the gut, where hydrolytic cleavage takes place."12 It is suggestive that two-sensed animals (i. e. protozoa) and the simpler animals take food into vacuoles within cells and digestion occurs, i. e. absorption of food and its digestion take place by the process of lomähära (diffusion), 13
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In the course of evolution, as it appears, the higher, more complex animals including man have developed special organs 14 for obtaining and digesting food. The products of digestion, i. e. chyle (rasa) are transported by the circulatory system (rasa haraniyo sirão) to the cells of the body to be utillized. The digestive tract of man is essentially a long tube composed of several separate organs which carry out ingestion, digestion and absorption, such as, mouth cavity (mukha)16 tongue (Jiha),17 teeth (damta), 18 oesophagus, stomach (amoru, udara )19 deudenm (pākkāśaya)20 small intestine (tanuya mta ?),21 liver (yakṛt)22 large intestine (Thulamta),23 rectum (payu, gudā), 24 etc.
10. Sūtrākṛtänga II, 3. Ihagatiya satta udagajeniya...
udagaṇain
sinehamaramti /" (59); 'te jiva dahara samana mäukkhiram samppim ahäremti anupuvveṇam ruddha odaṇam.... ahāranti /" 55.
11. Ibid.
12. Biology, P. 296
13. Sūtrakṛtänga II. 3, (comm.) "sparsèndriyeņa ya aharah sa lomahara it", p. 87. 14. Mouth mukh, stomach ( amoru, udara), deudenum (pakkasaya) (Kalyanakaraka, 3.4) small intestine (tanuyamta /), large intestine (Thulamta) etc. (Tandula Veyaliya, 16, p. 35 etc.)
15. Tandula Veyaliya 16, p. 35,
16. Ibid,. P. 36, (Comm.) "Mukhe agucipürne prayo dvatrimsaddantah asthikbandani bhavanti /"
17. Ibid., 16 p. 35, "Jibbha" or "Jiha",
18. "Battisami damta", Ibid.
19. "amoru", Kalyaṇakaraka 3.4. "Udara", Tandula Veyaliya, 17, p. 38.
20. "Pakkasaya", Kalyāṇakāraka, 3.4.
21.
22. "Yakṛt", ; Kalyāṇakaraka, 3.4.,
23. "Thulamta" Tandula Veyaliya p. 6, p. 35.
24. "Payu", One of the nine śrotas ( orifices), Ibid., p. 38.
"Guda", Ibid., 16, p. 36,
Tanuyamta", Tandula Veyaliya 16, p. 35.