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 Entitled to a Particular Type of Birth :
Of the above-mentioned three types of birth which one takes place in the case of which species of beings—this specification stands as follows :
The species jarāyuja, andaja and potaja are born coming out of a womb, the heavenly beings and the hellish beings are born by way of sudden manifestation, the rest—that is, the five species of static beings, the three species with deficient senseorgans, and the five-sensed human beings and animals not born of a womb-are born by way of agglutination. The jarāyuja are those species which are born from jarāyu-e.g. men, cows, buffallows, goats etc. Jarāyu is a form of net-like coverage which is filled with blood and flesh and which enwraps the newly born young. The andaja are those species which are born out of an egg-e.g. serpants, peacocks, birds, pigeons etc. The potaja are those species which are born without being wrapped in a coverage-e.g. elephants, rabbits, mongooses, rats etc. These last species are born neither as covered by jarāyu, nor are they born out of an egg, but they are born in the form of an uncovered body. In the case of the heavenly beings and hellish beings there is a particular fixed place where birth takes place and which is called upapāta (i.e. the region of sudden manifestation). A place situated on the surface of a divine couch covered by divine clothing is the upapāta-region for the heavenly beings; a ventilator situated in a hard mortar wall is the upapāta-region for the hellish beings. For these two species of beings receive for the sake of building a body the physical particles of the vaikriya type existing in those two upapāta-regions. 34-36.
An Account Pertaining to the Types of Body :
Audārika, vaikriya, āhāraka, taijasa and kārmaņa-these five are types of body. 37.
Among these five types one mentioned later is subtler than one mentioned earlier. 38.