Jain Biology

SR No.: 006905
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jethalal S Zaveri, Mahendramuni
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 2008
Total Pages: 152
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 13 MB

Page 113

Thus we have four different yonikas.
The organisms which are born on or in the bodies of other organisms have molecules of water as their bodies. And then it is said that this water body is produced by wind, is condensed by wind and is transported by wind. It moves upward with an upward wind, downwards with a downward wind and moves in the horizontal direction if the wind moves horizontally. (they are of several kinds such as) mist (water-vapour precipitated in droplets smaller and more condensed than those or rain), hoarfrost (ice crystals-formed by condensation of water vapour below freezing point), snow, hailstones (pellets of frozen water falling in shower), dew (watervapour condensed on cool surfaces on or near the ground) and rainwater. (Note: all these are varieties of RAW water produced as NATURAL phenomena). The water-bodied organisms obtain their nourishment from the nutritive fluids (humers) of the bodies of the various mobile and immobile organisms (in or on which they are originated as stated before). And the bodies of these water-bodied organisms are of many varieties.
The dissertation in respect of other yonikas is similar except that each kind obtain their nourishment from the environment in which they are produced.
(b) FIRE-BODIED ORGANISMS: There is hardly and difference in the treatment of fire-bodied organisms from that of water-bodied ones and the four paras. 69 to 92 just repeat what has been said in the preceding four paras, substituting fire-bodied organisms in place of water-bodied
ones.
(c) AIR-BODIED ORGANISMS: Four paragraphs which followparas. 93 to 96—treat air-bodied organisms in the same way as the preceding ones treat fire-bodied organisms.
(d) EARTH-BODIED ORGANISMS: Four paragraphs which follow-paras. 97 to 100 deal with Earth-bodied organisms in the same manner. In para. 97 various kinds of earths are indicated. After giving a couple of names reference is made to Uttarādhyayana for the names of many types of earth. Otherwise they treat the Earth-bodied organisms in the same way as the preceding ones treated Fire-bodied and Air-bodied organisms.
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