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TATTVĀRTHA SŪTRA
(5) Hot : the seat characterized by hot touch.
(6) Partly cold and partly hot : the seat where one part is characterized by cold touch, another by hot.
(7) Concealed : the seat which is under a lid or covered.
(8) Revealed : the seat which is not under a lid but is open.
(9) Partly concealed and partly revealed : the seat where one part is covered, another open..
The following are the details as to which species of living beings are born at one type of seat of birth, which species at another type : The Species
The Type of the Birth The hellish beings and heavenly That devoid of living entities. beings. The human beings born of a That partly possessed of and womb and animals born of a partly devoid of living entities. womb. The Rest—that is, the five all the three-viz. that species of static beings, the possessed of living entities, that three species with deficient devoid of living entities, that sense-organs (i.e. the two- partly possessed of and partly sensed, three-sensed, four- devoid of living entities. sensed beings), the five-sensed human beings and animals not born of a womb. The human beings born of a Partly cold and partly hot. - womb and animals born of a womb, the heavenly beings.
1. In the Digambara commentary texts the heavenly beings and the hellish beings are alone said to be entitled to a partly cold and partly hot seat. So according to them, those entitled to all the three types of seat-viz. cold, hot and partly cold and partly hot-should not include the hellish beings and they should include the human beings born of a womb and animals born of a womb..
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