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Biology in Jaina Treatise on Reals
However, he remains non-intaker for one, two or three Samayas due to curved or non-linear motions. He remains intaker of the above type during the arrowtype linear motion lasting for one Samaya only. He is non-intaker in the first Samaya during the one-bend two-Samayal motion of hand-dropping type. He is non-intaker in the first and second Samayas during the two-bend three-Samaya motion of plough-type. He is intaker in the third Samaya. He remains nonintaker in the first, second and third Samaya in the three-bend four-Samaya motion of cow-urine type. He is intaker only in the fourth Samaya. Supplementary Notes 1. The following points are dealt with in the commentary: (a) The living being under transmigratory motion is non-intaker upto
Samaya units of time because of energy released due to the extrication from the earlier body. (b) This aphorism is supplied with the word 'time from 2.29. The justification of composing 2.30 in the second case (rather than the seventh one) has been given. (c) The intake has been properly defined. (d) There is no ejectable body during the transmigratory motion. There is no morsel or other types of intakes too. (e) The time-limit for non-intake by the transmigrating living being is dependent upon the nature of the four types of motions. 2. The S-version mentions only one or two Samayas in the aphorism. The third Samaya could be implicated by the word 'Va' in the aphorism as per Haribhadra and Siddhasena. 3. This aphorism has two versions. In Digambara version, the intake means to receive the mattergic particles capable of forming the first three bodies (as in 2.36) and six completions of the embodiment. In contrast, the S-version (Siddhasena) defines the intake as receiving mattergic particles capable of formation and nourishment of only two bodies- gross and transformational, 4. The Digambaras have six varieties of intake- (i) diffusional (ii) osmoitic (iii) morsel (iv) karmic (v) quasi-karmic and (vi) mental. In contrast, the S-version has only the first three types of intakes. The first categorisation is finer than the second. 5. It can be easily guessed that as the liberating beings do not have gross or fine bodies, they do not require any intake. They are, therefore, non-intakers only. 6. The worldly beings, however, have transmigratory motions with fine karmic body lasting upto four or five Samayas. There seems to be some difference of opinion regarding time of their intake and non-intake.
The Svetāmbaras point out that the maximum non-intake time may be two Samayas only. This is based on the following facts:
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