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 World of Life : Plants
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tree, esp. acid quicea for medicine ), Umbehariya (Ficus glomerata ?),
ra ( or Khirini-Ascelpia rosea, Mimosa kauki or a Glomerous figtree), Dhāyai (Woodfordia floribund or Grishlea Tomentosa ), Piyāla (the tree Buchanania Latifolia, in Bengal commonly called Piyal), Puiya or Puikaramjā (Caesalpinja Bonducella ), Nivāyaga (Pongamia glabra ), Senahya or Senhā (Slakṣāna - Bauhinia Tomentosa or Caesalpinia ), Pāsiya 29 ( a kind of tree ), Sisavā (Simšapā - the ttee Dalbergia sissoo ), Asana ( Terminalia Tomentosa ), Punnaga (Nāgakesar - Mesua ferrea or Roxburghii), Nägarukkha (a kind of tree ), Sivana (SivanniSriparna-premna Spinosa or Longifolia or Omelina arborea ), Asoga (the tree Jonesia Asoka ), and besides others like them.30
Their roots, bulbs, stems, barks, branches and twigs are inhabited by innumerable bacteria, their leaves have single bacterius each; their flowers are the habitats of many bacteria and their fruits are singleseeded. For this reason these trees are called Egatthiyā (Ekastgikā 31 (monocotolydonous ?).
There are stated to be many kinds of Bahubījaka trees (manysecded trees), such as, Atihiya (Asthika =Guava ), Tinduga or Timdu (Diospyros embryopteris -Ebony ),32 Kavittha (Kapittha - Kothi, manyseeded plant, Feroma Elephantam ), Ambādaga (Amrātaka - Spondias mangifera or the hog drum tree ), Māulinga ( Mātulunga, Citrus medica, the citron tree), Billa ( Bilva, Aegle Marmelos ), Āmalaga (Phyllanthus Emblicus), Pharasa (Jack fruit or bread fruit tree - Artocarpus Integrifolia ), Dādima (the Pomogranate tree, Punica granatum ), Asottha or Asattha (Asattha - Ficus religiosa), Umbara (Udumbara - Ficus glomerat ) Vada = Vata (the Banyan tree-Ficus Bengalensis ), Naggoha (Nyagrodha, Ficus Bengalensis ), Namdirukkha ( Nandivpksa, Ficus retusa, or Cedrela Toona), Pippali (ri) ( Pippal tree, the sacred fig tree, Ficus Religiosa ), Sayari (Satavari, Asparagus Racemosus), Pilukkharukkha (plakşavsksa - Fig tree-Ficus Infectoria), Kāumvariya (Kādumvaria - the opposite leaved fig tree-Ficus opposite folia), Kucchumbbarika or Kutthumbhari (Kustumbharika - Coriandrum Sativa ), Devadāli (Luffa echinata ), Tilaga ( Tilaka tree - Clerodendrum ), Lauya (Lakuca Artecarpus Lacucha), 29. Bhagavati Sūtra, 22.2.692. 30. Bhagavati Sutra, 21-1.692 to 22.2.692; Pannavaņā, 1.40, p. 17; Jivābhigama
Sutta, 1.40, p. 17. 31. Bhagavati Sūtra, 8.3.324; Jivābhigama Sutta, p.45; Pannavaņā Sutta, I, 40, p. 17.
“Etesi ŋam mülā vi asamkhejjajiv ya, kamdā vi khamdhā vi tayā vi sälā vi pavālā vi / pattā patteyajiviya, pupphà anegajiviya phala egatthiya / settam
egathiya /". (zx) Bhs. 8.3.324; Pannavaņā 1.45. 32. Bhagavati Sūtra, 22.3.692; Paņņavaņā, 1.41, p. 17.