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TATTVĀRTHA SÚTRA: LIVING BEINGS : 31
• Sacittaśītasanívrtāh setarā miśrascaikaśastadyonayah// Yonis or places of birth are of nine types – 1. Sacitta or live,
2. Síta or cold, 3. Avrtta or covered, 4. Acitta or lifeless, 5. Üsna or warm, 6. Vivrtta or open, 7. Sacittácitta or partly live and patly lifeless, 8. Sītosna or partly cold and partly warm, and 9. Samivrtavivrta or part covered and parl open.
(33) • Jarāyvandapotajānāmi garbhah || 34 || The “Jarayuja' or placental birth, the “Andaja’or egg-birth, and
'Potaja'or either a bare umbilical birth without covering or an Non-placental birth are through wombs. (34)
• Nārakadevānāmupapātah || 35 || The hellish and heavenly creatures take birth through sudden
manifestation. (35)
• Śesāṇāni sammūrchanani ||36|| Remaining creatures are born through agglutination. (36)
Bodies
• Audārikavaikriyāāhārakataijasakārmanāniśarīrāni
|| 37 || The living beings can possess five types of bodies, namely - 1.
Audārika śarīra or gross body made up of gross matter; 2. Vaikriya śarīra or transformational body that is capable of assuming any form at will; 3. Ahāraka śarīra or translocational body that can shift its location, anywhere in the world, at will; 4. Taijasa śarīra or caloric body that provides energy for digestion etc.; and 5. Kārmana śarīra or the kā imic body that determines the fate of a soul at any given time.
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