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7. [Q.] Bhante ! If crow (dank), vulture (kank), Indian oriole (vilak or peelak), duck (madguk) and peacock (shikhi), they all are devoid of 4 morality etc. then do they get born (as infernal beings) as aforesaid ?
[Ans.] Yes, Gautam ! They get born as infernal beings as aforesaid.
"Bhante ! Indeed that is so. Indeed that is so." With these words... and so on up to... ascetic Gautam resumed his activities.
विवेचन-प्रश्न होता है कि वानर आदि जिस समय वानरादि हैं उस समय वे नारक रूप हैं, फिर नारक रूप से कैसे उत्पन्न हुए? इसका समाधान करते हुए भगवान महावीर कहते हैं कि जो उत्पन्न हो रहा है, वह उत्पन्न हुआ कहलाता है। क्रियाकाल और निष्ठाकाल में अभेद दृष्टि से यह ठीक ही कहा गया है क्योंकि जो वानरादि नारक रूप से उत्पन्न होने वाले हैं। अतः वे उत्पन्न हुए हैं।
Elaboration-Here the question is that monkeys (vaanars) and other animals, when they exist as monkey etc. how could they be born as infernal beings? Bhagavan Mahavir explains—that which is in process of being born can be called as born. This is an interpretation from the viewpoint of absence of difference between the time of action and time of inevitable natural consequence.
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