Gommatasara Jiva Kanda

SR No.: 001612
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Nemichandra Siddhant Chakravarti, J L Jaini
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 1927
Total Pages: 438
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Principle, & Canon
File Size: 9 MB

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GOMMATASARA.
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Chaturgati-Nigoda (or Itara-nigoda), (each of these six being) gross, (or) otherwise (i. ė., fine-bodied), individualsouled, (Pratyeka, Vegetable souls (having either) hostsouls (Pratishthita) or not (Itara, or Aprațishthita i. e., non-host-individual-souled), the five mobile souls, all these nineteen being either) developable, (or) non-developable, (the latter again being) of two kinds. (Thus there are fifty-seven soul-classes).
Commentary. A tabular statement will clearly show the detail of 57 soulclasses :1.-sensed being :(1) Earth-bodied ...
(1) (2) Water-bodied...
Each of these 3) Fire-bodied ...
six may be:Air-bodied
1. Gross-bodied
(12) Host-souled. (1) Nitya-nigoda (5)
2. Fine-bodied (5) Vegetable- (2) Itara-nigoda (6) bodied.
Individual-souled. (1) Host-individual-souled
(12) Non-host-individual-souled II.-Two-sensed beings III.-Three-sensed beings IV. Four-sensed beings V.-Five-sensed beings 1. Rational
2. Irrational Each of these 19 being either Developable,
(1) Potentially-developable, ... or (2) Totally Non-developable ..
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Nigoda - The group-souled vegetable kingdom is called “Nigoda'. Those multitudinous souls that have their body, nourishment, and age in common are called host-souls (Sádhárana). They take their birth together, live together and die together. Their life-span is very short.
Some of these, after having once come out of the Nigoda condition, and entered into higher forms of life, again fall back into the condition of Nigoda. These are called "Chaturgati-Nigoda”, “or " Itara-Nigoda." While those infinite souls who have so far never entered into any condition of life higher than that of. Nigoda, are called “ Nitya Nigoda."