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abhoganirvartita whereas the same undertaken by them without any desire or knowledge on their part is to be regarded as anabhoganirvartita. In short, abhoganirvartita-ähara means voluntary feeding whereas anabhoganirvartita-āhāra means involuntary feeding. The cases of involuntary feeding are feeding through skin etc. And this involuntary feeding is incessant and uninterrupted. In the chapter on feeding there occurs discussion about abhoganirvartita and anabhoganirvartita ähära. And on the basis of that discussion we can interpret the terms ābhoganirvartita-ähāra and anabhoganirvartita-ahara in the above-mentioned sense. But it is a problem for us to reconcile with this interpretation the statement of Ac. Malayagiri that the feeding undertaken by living beings possessed of manaḥpranidhāna is ābhoganirvartita. It is so because like the one-sensed beings, even the two-sensed, the threesensed and the four-sensed possess apaļu (undeveloped) manas only; and hence there arises a question as to why the feeding undertaken by the one-sensed alone is considered to be anabhoganirvartita. The following seems to be the plausible answer to the question. The living beings that possess organ of taste (rasanendriya) possess mouth and hence they entertain the desire to undertake feeding. On this ground their feeding might have been regarded as abhoganirvartita. And we know that the two-sensed, the three-sensed and the four-sensed beings possess the organ of taste. But the one-sensed beings possess organ of touch alone; they do not possess organ of taste.
Regarding the material particles received by the living beings while undertaking feeding we are told as to whether or not they are cognised determinately (jānāti) by the living beings undertaking feedings, also as to whether or not they are cognised indeterminately (paśyati) by them. The following table summarises the account.
jānāti
paśyati na jānāti na paśyati
0
0
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Naraka, Bhavanavāsi, Vānavyantra, Jyotiska Ekendriya upto Trindriya Caturindriya 1. Some 2. Some others Pañcendriya Tiryañca and human beings 1. Some 2. Some
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