Agam 01 Ang 01 Acharang Sutra Aayaro Terapanth

Author(s): Tulsi Acharya
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati

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(3) Human beings, and quadrupeds such as cows and buffaloes etc. (Jarāyu means the membrane which envelopes the young one at the time of birth).
(4) Worms, etc. (generated in fluids like curd, buttermilk etc.)
(5) Bugs, lice, etc.
(6) Two-sensed, three-sensed, and four-sensed beings, (whose birth depends upon external conditions). (7) Butter-flies, wagtails, etc.
(8) Hell-beings and celetial beings. These are born spontaneously and come to manhood within a muhurta (i. e. 48 minutes). It may be mentioned that No. (vi) includes (iv), (v) & (vii) also.
११६. एस संसारेति पयुच्चति ।
119. Esa samsaretti pavvuccati.
119.
This (category of mobile-beings) is called samsara (i. e. world of recurrently transmigrating beings).
ANNOTATION 119. The world of mobile-beings is called here samsara perhaps for two reasons;
ĀYĀRO
(1) Souls go on transmigrating from one genus to another one, passing through the cycles of birth and death. (2) Only the beings belonging to this category are capable of locomotion.
१२०. मंदस्स अवियाणओ ।
120. Mamdassa aviyāṇao.
120. The slow-witted and the benighted ones (go on transmigrating in this world).
ANNOTATION 120: In this aphorism two causes of the incessant transmigration of souls are pointed out:
(1) Lack of wisdom or discretion. (2) Ignorance.