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भगवती सूत्रम् सः ८उ: २
A, 95. Gautama ! They may be endowed with knowledge, or with non.knowledge. Those who are endowed with knowledge are, as a rule, endowed with perceptual and scriptural knowledge. Those who are endowed with non-knowledge are also, as a rule, endowed with perceptual and scriptural non-knowledge, So also those with three organs and four organs.
प्रश्न ९६-पंचिंदियतिरिक्खजोणियाणं पुच्छा ?
Q. 96. And what about the five-organ animals ?
उत्तर ९६-गोयमा ! णाणी वि अण्णाणी वि । जे णाणी ते अत्थेगइया दुण्णाणी अत्थेगइया तिण्णाणी। एवं तिणि णाणाणि तिण्णि अण्णाजाणि य भयणाए। मस्सा जहा जीवा। तहेव पंच णाणाई तिण्णि अण्णाणाणि य भयणाए। वाणमंतरा जहा रइया । जोइसियवेमाणियाणं तिणि णाणाणि तिणि अण्णाणाणि णियमा ।
- A, 96. Gautama ! They may be endowed with knowledge, or with non-knowledge. In the case of those who are endowed with knowledge, some have two types and some have three : so also about three types of non-knowledge, i.e., upto three types of knowledge and three of non-knowledge. Men are like five organ beings, with knowledge upto five types, and non-knowledge upto three. The Vana-vyantaras are like the infernal beings. The Jyotişkas and the Vaimānikas have three types of knowledge and three types of non-knowledge, as a rule.
प्रश्न ९७–सिद्घाणं भंते ! पुच्छा ?
Q. 97. And the perfected beings, pray ?
उत्तर ९७-गोयमा ! णाणी णो अण्णाणी। णियमा एगणाणी केवलणाणी।
A. 97. Gautama !
They are endowed with knowledge,
