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Bhagavai 3:4:164-171
3.171 se bhamte! kim vāukāe? padāgā?
goyamā! vāukāe nam se, no khalu sä padāgā. Is it O Lord! air-bodied being or a material flag? O Gautama! it is air-bodied being, not a material flag.
Bhāsya 1. Sūtras 164-171
Gods and infernals have protean bodies by birth. Humans and animals, possessed of mind can acquire protean body by the virtue of their supernormal potentiality.' In the air-bodied beings which have undeveloped bio-potential, it is not possible, but as soon as they attain developed bio-potential, they achieve it.2 According to the Dhavalā, the fire-bodied beings with developed bio-potential also are possessed of the protean body, as distinguished from the Svetāmbara tradition.
The power of creating varied protean shapes in the air bodied beings is very much limited. The configuration of air-bodied being is that of a flag, which it can expand by its protean power. The air-bodied being traverses space by means of its own power, effort and impetus, without the assistance of any other external agency for its projection. The logic behind such motion of the protean body is that airbodied being is an animate object that does not need any external impetus for its zig-zag horizontal motion like that of a cow. Semantics yugya (jugga).-A kind of palanquin two cubits in length and breadth and provided with a square-shaped seat; such palanquin was used by the people of Golla country. In Lāța countryside, thilla is called yugya. It was carried by four persons.? gilli-A palanquin carried by a couple of persons or an ambāvādī-equipped saddle (howdah) on elephant. According to Silānkācārya, a bag-shaped spreadout cloth to carry a person within it is called gilli. thilli-A cart drawn by mule, prevalent in Läta country."" sivikā--A covered palanquin." syandamānikā-A palanquin of the length of a human being. This was used by distinguished people as a transport."
In Bha. Vr. almost these same meanings of the words from yugya up to syandamānikā are given. ucchritodaya-A high-flying (flag). (See figure 1] patat-udaya-A low-flying (flag).' [See figure 2] ekatahpatāka --A flag flying unilaterally. (See figure 3] dvidhāpatāka-A flag flying bilaterally. [See figure 4]
Śrimajjayācārya quotes an opinion explaining the expression as 'standing for two flags flying in the same direction',16
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