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senses.
Worms, oysters, conches, etc., are Trasa Jivas, possessing two senses, taste and touch. Ants, bugs, lice, etc., are Trasa Jivas having three senses, touch, taste and smell. Mosquitoes, flies, bees, etc., are Trasa Jivas of four senses, touch, taste, smell and sight. Men, birds, beasts, Gods, ininates of Hell etc., are Trasa Jivas, possessing all the five senses, viz., touch, taste, smell, sight and hearing.f
It should be remembered that, though really Jîvas have two characteristics, viz, pure Jñâna and Darsana, it is owing to the different karmas that they assume bodies of various kinds possessed of one, two, three, four or five senses. That Jiva which resorts to earth for its body, is called Prithivi-Kaya (i.e., having earth as its body). Stones, etc., are examples of this class of Jivas. So also there are Jivas who resort to water, air or fire to have bodies.
* "संसारिणो मुक्ताश्च ।" “संसारिणस्त्रसस्थावराः ।"
"पृथिव्यप्तेजोवायुवनस्पतयः स्थावराः ।" "द्वीन्द्रियादयस्त्रसाः ।”
Tattvárthādhigama Sutra II. 10, 12 – 14.
In the Pañchâstikaya-samaya-sâra, we have the following verses, the sense of which has been summarised in the Commentary:
"पुढवी य उदगमगणी वाउवणफदि जीव-संसिदा काया । देति खलु मोहवल फासं बहुगा वि ते तेसिं ॥ पदे जीवनिकाया पंचविद्या पुढविकाइयादीया | मणपरिणामविरहिदा जीवा एगें दिया भणिया ॥ संवुक्कमा दुवाहा संखा सप्पो अपादगा य किमी । जाति रसं फासं जे ते वे-इंदिया जीवा । जुगागु भीमक्क गपिपीलिया विच्छियादिया कीडा । जानंति रसं फासं गंधं ते इंदिया जीवा ॥ उर्दू समसयमक्त्रियमधुकरभमरा पतंगमादीया । रूपं रसं च गन्धं फासं पुण ते वि जाणंति ॥ सुरणरणारयतिरिया वण्णर सफास गंध सद्दण्डू | जलचरथलचरखचरा वलिया पंचेंदिया जीवा ॥",
