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SAYA XXIV
uvavāyali) parīmāņam[2] sanghayan'[3) uccattam[4] eva samthā
nam[6]
lessā[6] ditthill nāņe[8) annāņe[9] joga[10] uvaoge[11] sannā[12) kasāya[13] indiya[14] samugghāyā[15] vedanā[16] ya
vede[17] ya āum[18] ajjhavasāņā[19] anubandho[20] kāya-samveho[21] jīva-pade jīva-pade jīvānam dandagammi uddesā cauvīsaimammi sae cauvvīsam honti uddesā.
The third gāhā says that the saya is composed of twenty-four udd., one for each species (jīva-pada). Each udd. will discuss twenty-one qualities and faculties of these beings, viz [1] rebirth (for their former existence see below), number of souls which may be thus embodied simultaneously (ega-samaeņam), joining of the bones (or firmness of the frame), size of the body (uccatta : sarīr'ogāhaņā), [5] form of the body, spiritual hue, belief, knowledge, negative knowledge, [10] activity, imagination, instincts, passions, senses, [15] expulsion of atoms, perception of karmans, sex, duration of life during that existence, determinations which may be praiseworthy (pasattha) or not (apasattha), [20] duration of the being's stay on that stage of existence during several rebirths, [21] coming back (gai-r-āgai) to the same form of existence.
The fourth gana of the first line of the second gāhā has five moras.--See Introduction & 5. The qualities and faculties discussed in XXIV are mainly the same as those treated in connection with the plants in XXI-XXIII and XI 1-8.
* H may originate either [A] (805a) from A5 devoid of consciousness (asanni) in which case they live only in Rayaņa
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