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## 264 / Go. Ma. Jivakanda
## Verses 188-190
**Special Meaning:** Mulabija, Agrabija, Parvabija, Kandabija, Skandhabija, Bijarūha, i.e., the main parts of a living being, whose power to sprout has not been destroyed. When water, earth, air, and seasons, etc., become the cause, then the same living being that was previously in that seed, or another living being, by virtue of its change in motion, arises in that seed. Mulaadik, which are established in the Agamas, are also unestablished in every way at the time of taking a body or until the time of Antarmūhūrta. After Antarmūhūrta, they become the shelter of Nigodajiva, then they become established in every way.
**Sri Matrachandra Vidyādeva** has written in three verses the special characteristics of established and unestablished:
**Verse 188:** Samābhanga, Mahīruha, and Chhinna-ruha, which have visible veins, lines, and knots, and which break evenly, and in both breaks, there is no connecting thread or fiber, and which sprout even after being cut, are called ordinary plants. The opposite of this is called a "pratiṣṭhita-pratyek" plant.
**Verse 189:** Those plants whose roots, tubers, skin, new shoots or sprouts, small branches (twigs), leaves, flowers, fruits, and seeds, when broken, break evenly, i.e., into two equal pieces, without any stopping, are called "su-pratiṣṭhita-pratyek" plants. On the other hand, those whose break is not even are called "pratiṣṭhita-pratyek" plants.
**Verse 190:** The plant whose tuber, root, small branch, or stem (trunk) has a thick bark is called "anantājīya-sampratiṣṭhita-pratyek." The one with thin bark is called "apratiṣṭhita-pratyek" plant.
**Special Meaning:** In the commentary of verse 128 of the Kotika, on page 66, Pandit Kailashchandraji has written that the "pratiṣṭhita-pratyek" plant, whose layers, branches, and knots are not visible, which breaks evenly into two pieces when broken, and has no connecting thread or fiber in the middle, and which sprouts again even after being cut, is called ordinary, i.e., "sampratiṣṭhita-pratyek." Here, the "sampratiṣṭhita-pratyek" plant body is called ordinary because it is the shelter of ordinary living beings. The plant in which the above things are not present, i.e., in which stripes, etc., are clearly visible, which does not break into equal pieces when broken, and which has a connecting thread when broken, is called "pratiṣṭhita-pratyek" body. In Mulaachar, the verse 216 of Panchaacharaadhikār is similar to the above verse 190 of Jivakanda. There also, Vasunandi Siddhantavarti has described it in the same way.
1. According to the commentary of Srimadandrasiddhantachakravarti.
2. This verse is the 216th verse in the Bhulaachar Adhikār 5.
3. All three verses are mentioned on page 66 of the commentary of verse 120 of Swa Ka. Anu. (Rayachandra Granthamala)