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CHAPTER TWO
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The fire-beings.
Hot. The Rest—that is, the four All the three-viz. cold, hot species of static beings, the and partly cold and partly hot. three species with deficient sense-organs, the five-sensed human beings and animals not born of a womb, the hellish beings. The hellish beings, the heavenly Concealed. beings, the one-sensed beings. The five-sensed human beings Partly concealed and partly and animals born of a womb. revealed. The Rest—that is, the three Revealed. species with deficient senseorgans, the human beings and the animals not born of a womb.
Question : What is the difference between birth and seat of birth ?
Answer : The seat of birth is support, birth is that which is supported. That is to say, the first reception of physical particles appropriate for a gross body is birth, the place where this reception takes place is the seat of birth.
Question : But they say the types of seat of birth are 84 lac in number. Why then is the number nine give here ?
Answer : The mention of number 84 lac relates to a detailed statement. Thus all the seats of birth belonging to the species earth-bodied etc. and differing from one another as to the degree of colour, smell, taste, touch would amount to 84 lac as so many types of seat of birth belonging to the species of beings taken in their entirety. It is these 84 lac types that are here briefly presented as nine types—viz. that possessed of living entities, etc. 33.
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