Tattvartha Sutra

SR No.: 006796
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Sukhlal Sanghavi, K K Dixit
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 2000
Total Pages: 596
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Tattvartha Sutra, & Tattvarth
File Size: 10 MB

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TATTVĀRTHA SŪTRA
Those Possessed of the Cognitive Organs :
The living beings upto the air-bodied ones are possessed of but one cognitive organ. 23.
An insect, an ant, a black bee, a man or the like—those respectively possess one plus one, one plus two, one plus three and one plus four cognitive organs. 24.
The Possessors of samjñā are those who are the possessors of manas. 25.
In the thirteenth and fourteenth aphorisms the worldly beings are divided into two types—viz. the static and the mobile. There are of them nine species in all: that is, the earth-bodied beings, the water-bodied, the plant-bodied, the fire-bodied and the air-bodied—these five on the one hand and the beings possessed of two cognitive organs, those possessed of three, those possessed of four, those possessed of five—these four on the other. Of these, the species upto the air-bodied are possessed of but one cognitive organ-viz. the tactile.
An insect, a leech, etc, are possessed of two cognitive organs-viz. the tactile and the gustatory. An ant, a gnat, a bug etc. are possessed of those two plus the olfactory organ--that is, three of them in all. A black bee, a fly, a scorpion, a mosquito, etc. are possessed of those three plus the visual organ—that is, four of them in all. A man, an animal, a bird, a heavenly being, a hellish being possess those four plus the auditory organ—that is, five of them in all.
Question : Do these numbers concern the dravya type of cognitive organs, or the bhāva type, or both the types ?
Answer : These numbers concern the dravya type of cognitive organs; for so far as the bhāva type of them are concerned all the five of them are possessed by all the species of living beings.
Question : Is it then possible for the insects etc. to see or to hear with the help of the concerned bhāva type of cognitive organs ?