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As a rule each of these beings is į times bigger than the one immediately preceding it; for those indicated with an * however the difference is said to be visesâhiya.
For ni(g)oya see Lehre par. 104. As is explained there these nigoyas originally no doubt were considered to be suhuma, although our text and Viy. 88gb = Jiv. 423b, Pannav. 381a also speak of bādara nigoyas.- patteyasarira (bādara vanassai-käiya): 'single plants' as against sāhārana-sarira: 'group plants' such as lichens and mosses, see Lehre par. 106; cf. & above and XXIII i-ii, iv-v.
• (765b) The plant-bodied being (vanassai-kāiya) (viz the nigoya consequently] is the finest (savva-suhuma ... savvasuhumatarāya) being of the AP class; then follow wind, fire, water and earth (vāu- ... kāya).—The plant (vanassai-kāya) is the biggest (savva-bādara ... savva-bādaratarāya) being of the Al class; then follow earth, water, fire and wind (pudhavi- ... kāya).--The body of a coarse earth-being (bādara-pudhavisarīra) is į times bigger than that of a coarse water-being ...; the body of a coarse wind-being is į times bigger than that of a fine earth-being (suhuma-pudhavi-[kāiya-]sarīra) ...; the body of a fine wind-being is o times bigger than that of a suhumavaṇassai-kāiya.
d (766b) The absolute size of an earth-being (pudhavi-kāiya) is explained with a simile: if a clod of earth the size of a playing ball (egam maham pudhavi-kāiyam jau-golā-samānam) is rubbed on a grinding stone (sanhakaranī) some earth-beings are crushed etc. and killed (uddaviya : mārita, Abhay.), others are not.The pain (vedanā) such a being experiences when it is trampled (akkante samāņe) is as great as that of an old decrepit man whom a young strong man gives a blow on the head.—The same is true with water-, fire-, wind- and plant-beings. * *
Once Goy. addresses Mv, as saman'āuso.
4. MAHÂSAVA.
(7676) With H karmic influx, action and perception are strong (they are ma h â s av a, mahākiriya, mahāveyaņa), but annihilation of karman is weak (appa-nijjara). With G influx
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