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Padhamo Uddeso
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Samgahanī gāhā
1. āhāra 2. virati 3. thāvara, 4. jīvā 5. pakkhi ya 6. āu 7. anagārel 8. chaumattha 9. asamvuda, 10. annautthi dasa sattamammii sae ||1||
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There are ten uddeśakas (sections) in the seventh śataka (chapter)-1. Nourishment-the dialogue on āhāraka (ingestor of nourishment) and anāhāraka (non-ingestor of nourishment), 2. Abstinence-the dialogue on pratyākhyāna (vow of abstinence), 3. Immobile (living being)--the dialogue on the vegetation-bodied beings, 4. Souls—the dialogue on the mundane beings (souls), 5. Bird—the dialogue on the birds, 6. Life-span—the dialogue on the life-span, 7. Ascetic--the dialogue on the ascetics, 8. Souls (humans) with the veils of deluding karma--the dialogue on veiled humans, 9. Non-self-inhibited (ascetic)—the dialogue on the non-self-inhibited ascetic, 10. Heretics—the dialogue on the heretics such as Kālodāyī etc.
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Anāhāraga-padam 7.1 teņam kālenam tenam samaenam jāva evam vadāsł--jīve namn bhamte! kam
samayamanāhārue bhavai? goyamā! padhame samae siya āhārae siya aņāhārae, bitie sumae siya āhārae siya anāhārae, tatie samae siya āhārae siya anāhārae, cautthe samue niyamā
āhārae. evam damdao jīvā ya egimdiyā ya cautthe samae, sesă tatie samae. The Topic of the Non-ingester of Nourishment
In that age, at that time etc. ...... up to Gautama, the principal disciple of the Ascetic Lord Mahāvīra, addressed the Lord thus-O Lord! at what time is the soul the non-ingester of nourishment? Gautama! at the first samaya (indivisible time-unit) (during the transit from one birth to another, or expansion of soul-units), sometime the soul is ingester of nourishment and sometime not; at the second samaya, sometime the soul is ingester of nourishment, sometime not; at the third samaya, sometime the soul is ingester of nourishment, sometime not; at the fourth samaya, the soul is necessarily ingester of nourishment. In the same way, all the 24 soul-groups
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