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pariggahiyain bhavamti. se tenatthenam.
Are the five-sensed sub-humans, O Lord! possessed of (the urges for) violence, and possessiveness? Or are they free from (the urges for) violence and possessiveness?
Like the infernals, the five-sensed sub-humans possess karma (vide sutra 5.185). They also possess-plateau, summit of a hill, hill without at summit, hill with a summit and slightly inclined hilly area; they also possess water, land, burrows, caves, and a house carved out of a rock; they also possess water-fall from a hill, stream, muddy tank, small water pond, watercanal; they also possess well, pond, lake, river, circular tank, lily-pool, spring, curved canal, tank with internal stream, series of tanks, interconnected series of tanks and series of burrows; they also possess pleasure-resort, park, grove near a city, forest remote from city, and forest with same kind of trees and rows of trees: they also possess temple, rural court of justice, water-shed for travellers, stupa (monamental tower or pillar), ditch wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, ditch of the same size at top and bottom; they also possess rampart, turret, passage between rampart and fort (for elephants etc., to pass through) door and city-gate; they also possess palace, house, thatched (cottage or an ante-room), rest-house and shops (bazaar); they also possess triangular corners, a meeting of three paths, squares, cross roads, four exit areas, high ways and common ways; they also possess cart, chariot, vehicle, plain palanquin, howdah, mule-cart covered palanquin, special palanquin of the length of the man; they also possess iron pan, cauldron and ladle; they also possess mansions; they possess gods, goddesses, men, women, male sub-humans and female sub-humans; they also possess seats, beds, pillars, earthenwares, animate, inanimate and mixed substances; it is in this sense it has been said that the five-sensed sub-humans are possessed of (the urges for) violence and possessiveness; they are not free from (the urges for) violence and possessiveness.
5.190 jahä tirikkhajoṇiyä tahā manussä vi bhāniyavvā, vāṇamamtara-joisa-vemaniyā jaha bhavaṇavāsī tahā neyavvā.
Bhagavai 5:7:182-190
The humans are to be described like the sub-humans.
The Forest gods, Luminous gods and the Empyrean gods are to be described like the Mansion gods.
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1. Sutras 182-190
Indulging in injurious activity and possessiveness are the basic urges of the mundane soul. These are available in the infernals, sub-humans, humans and also gods. There are six classes of living beings-the earth-bodied, water-bodied, firebodied, air-bodied, vegetation bodied and mobile beings. The infernals indulge in
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| SR No. | 006599 |
| Book Title | Agam 05 Ang 05 Bhagvati Vyakhya Prajnapti Sutra Part 02 Bhagvai Terapanth |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Tulsi Acharya, Mahapragna Acharya, Mahendramuni, Nathmal Tatia |
| Publisher | Jain Vishva Bharati |
| Publication Year | 2009 |
| Total Pages | 740 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English, Agam, Canon, & agam_bhagwati |
| File Size | 20 MB |