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J. C." Sikdar
The host-parasite or predator-prey-relationship may be harmful to the host or prey as a species when such relationship is first set up. But the study of different examples of parasite-host and predator-prey interrelations show that "in general, where the associations are of long standing the long-term effect on the host or prey may not be very detrimental and may even be beneficial."114
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The brief survey of the classification of living things plants and ani. mals, their distinctions, mode of nutrition, ecosystem, habitat and ecologic niche, and types of interactions between species as found in the Jaina Agamas gives a picture of the world of animals and plants, all related closely or distantly by evolutionary descent, and bound together in a variety of interspecific interactions.
113. Some organisms growing on the animate or inanimate bodies of manifold movable or immovable creatures, come forth as parasites. They feed on the humours of various movable and immovable creatures, II, 3-27.
114. Biology, 93.
