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JAINISM AND BUDDHISM on account of material vitalities, Dravya Prana, and dies when they are destroyed. They are ten in number, five senses, of touch, taste, smell, sight and hearing ; three powers of body, speech and mind age and breathing. They are found in different degrees in the different kinds of mundane beings as below :
(1) One-sensed, beings such as earth-bodied, waterbodied, fire-bodied, air-bodied, and vegetable-bodied. They have got only one sense namely that of touch and have in all four vitalities, touch, physical power, age and breathing.
(2) Two-sensed beings such as insects of rice shell and conches etc. They have senses of touch and taste, and have six vitalities in all. Sense of taste and speech-power are added to the four of the one-sensed.
(3) Three-sensed beings such as ants, bugs, lice, etc., have three senses of touch, taste and smell and have seven vitalities. Sense of smell is added to the six of the former class.
(4) Four-sensed beings such as flies, wasps, bees, moths etc., have four senses of touch, taste, smell, and sight and have eight vitalities. Sense of sight is added to the seven of the former class...
(5) Five-sensed irrational beings such as some species of serpents which live in water; they have got all the five senses, and have nine vitalities, sense of hearing is added to the eight of the former class.
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