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________________ -4l4byniola. [444m: the father's seed and mother's blood in the womb. of the female. This is again of three kinds, viz., Jarayuja ( birth in a yolk sack, flesh envelope, like a human child), Potaja ( birth without any sack or shell, like a young one of an elephant ) and Andaja ( birth from a shell like an egg, like a pigeon ). The third is Upapada. Gods are so born in a bed while the Narakas are born in a Kumbha. All beings having one to four organs are Sammurchchhins. Except the gods and the Narakas who are Upapadaja, the remaining. Panchendriyas, viz., the TiryachPanchendriyas and human beings may be either Sammurchchhin or Garbhaja. The bodies are of five kinds:- (1) Audarika, (2). Vaikriya, (3) Aharaka, (4) Taijasa and (5) Karmana. Of these each is a higher and more refined than the preceding one. The first body is gross whereas the remaining ones are subtle ( invisible to ordinary human eyesight ). The first three bodies are formed from the Aharaka Vargana ( molecules of assimilative matter ), the fourth from the Taijasa Vargana and the fifth, from the Karmana Vargana. In the case of the first three bodies each has innumerable times the Prades'as which are in the one preceding it, whereas in the case of the last two, each has an infinite-fold number of Prades'as as compared with the body immediately preceding it. At one and the same time one can have at best the four bodies, Audarika, Taijasa, Karmana, and Aharaka and this is so in the case of the saints alone. Thus, at no time a living 295 Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org
SR No.004893
Book TitleNyaya Kusumanjali
Original Sutra AuthorN/A
AuthorNyayavijay
PublisherVadilal Dahyabhai Ahmedabad
Publication Year1922
Total Pages438
LanguageGujarati
ClassificationBook_Gujarati
File Size17 MB
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