Agam 05 Ang 05 Bhagvati Vyakhya Prajnapti Sutra Part 01

SR No.: 002130
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: K C Lalwani
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication
Publication Year: 1999
Total Pages: 354
Language: English, Prakrit
Classification: Book_English, Agam, Canon, & agam_bhagwati
File Size: 16 MB

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bhavadharaniya and uttaravaikriya body, which is relevant of the infernal beings, is not applicable to the earth-bodies. They take four tinges, of which those with red tinge take 80 forms, and the rest take forms which lack uniformity. They invariably have wrong outlook, and are in possession of the first two types of ignorance. They have activities of body only, not of mind and speech. Water-bodies are similar to earth-bodies. Airbodies and fire-bodies are similar to earth-bodies, except that they do not take red tinge, and so they do not take 80 forms. Air-bodies have four body types, viz., gross, fluid, caloric and kārman. Flora-bodies are exactly like earth-bodies, with those having red tinge taking 80 forms. A point of confusion may be that since earth-bodies, water-bodies and flora-bodies may take 80 forms, they should be in possession of stability, either as prior possession, or acquired at a later stage. But there is no mention of it in the Sütra. The solution is that earth-bodies, water-bodies and flora-bodies are at no stage in prior possession of stability, nor do they acquire it at any later period. As it has been stated :
ubhayābhāvo puậhavaiesu vigalesu hojja uvavanno tti
(Earth-bodies lack both ; only two-, three-, and fourorgan beings are born with stability.]
128. The two-, three- and four-organ beings together are called vikalendriya. Consideration about them reveals the following peculiarities. They are few in number and take 80 forms. They take mati and śruta knowledge/ignorance. They do not have a mixed outlook, so that their outlook is either right or wrong. In their outlook and knowledge, they take 80 forms. They may be in prior possession of stability, or they may even acquire it later. For those cases where infernals take 27 forms, the vikalendriyas are without any definite form. They do not take red tinge, and they have only two activities, those of body and of speech, not of mind.
129. Animals with five organs of senses, in matters of anger, pride, attachment and greed, take 80 forms. Wherein infernals take 27 forms, these are without any definite form. They have