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Table 9 : Summary of Disquisition Doors about Foods. No. Disquisition Hellish
Celestials
Sub-Humans
Humans
2
3
4
Yes
Yes
1. Food instinct 2. Nature of food
Inanimate matter
Inanimate
Yes Animate, inanimate, mixed matter
Yes Animate, Inanimate, mixed matter
matter
3. Period for Food
Desires (a) Natu- incessant ral/Unconscious
scious 48 minutes
522 : Scientific Contents in Prākrta Canons
48 minutes-3 days
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Solids, Fluids, Raw/ dry fruits, Tasty spices
4. Quality of Foods 1. Cold, 2. Icecold, ( 4 in each case ) 3. Temperature
burning like charcoal, 4. Permanent burning
like chaff fire 5. Food material 4-touch/8-touch
contacted matter Substantive, regional,
timal, physical, statal 6. Partial/wholly intake Entirety
2-9 days- 48 minutes-2 days 33000 yrs. Cherishable .1. Eatable like heron Colour, Taste, bird, 2. Hole-living Touch, Smell animal, 3. Hated ani
mal flesh, 4. Painful
like son's flesh -
As in hellish
As in hellish
As in hellish
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Entirety
Entirety
Entirety
