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Water, milk, salt, ghee, honey, etc. are called water-species. Diamond, lightning, sun and gem are said to be the inner moment of all living beings from a distance. Understand the fire that shows smoke of two-sense beings like Gandupada, abdomen, worm, conch, etc. I have called countless the Utkal (oblique flowing air), Mandali (spherical flowing air), Gunja (resonating air), etc. in this way, the air is of many types due to the difference in direction. Some knowledge-consciousness arises in them skillfully from clusters, hive-tradition. Touch, taste, smell, sight, (hearing) pure plant-bodied beings are born in clumps, vine-bodies, in ponds, in tree branches, etc., in the world, one sense from them ascends on each one. ||11|| The Yativar say. These are sufficient, insufficient, subtle and stationary. Some plant-bodied beings are ordinary.
12 and each also. The respiration and food of ordinary plant-bodied beings is ordinary. In the sufficient state of the two-sense being, there are six breaths, in the sufficient state of the three-sense being, there are seven, and each being has its own, which are attained by cutting, piercing and death. There are subtle breaths and in the insufficient state there are five breaths, in the sufficient state of the four-sense being there are eight breaths. The earth-bodied beings have ten thousand years of life; the rough earth-bodied beings have twenty thousand years of life. There are water-bodied beings. The life of water-bodied beings is seven thousand years, the life of fire-bodied beings is three days, the life of air-bodied beings is three thousand years, and in the insufficient state there are six breaths. Thus, the great Muni, who has pure knowledge, says. Five-sense beings are both conscious and unconscious, those who are devoid of mind are definitely unconscious, they do not receive education and conversation, due to the covering of ignorance, their stubbornness is firm. For Private & Personal use only
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