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Biology in Jaina Treatise on Reals
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The celestial and infernal beings have non-livingful birth-place as the accumulated mattergic entities in their birth-places are non-living. 19. The uterine-born living beings have mixed birth-place. There is the non-living semen and menstrual blood in the stomach of the mother which get mixed up with conscious soul there. Thus, they have a non-living-livingful birth-place. 20. The remaining agglutinationally born living beings have all the three types of birth places. They may be livingful, non-livingful and mixed. The living beings with livingful birth place have common embodiment because they are dependent on each other. The other individual bodied living beings have the other two types of birth places- non-livingful and mixed ones. 21. The infernal and celestical beings have their special-bed birth places as cold and hot. Some of their birth places are cold and some of them are hot. 22. The fire-bodied beings (one-sensed) have hot birth places. 23. The rest of the living beings (human and subhuman beings) have either cold, hot or mixed birth places. 24. The infernal, celestial and one-sensed beings have covered birth places. 25. The deficient-sensed beings have non-covered birth places.
The uterine-birthed beings have mixed birth places - covered and non covered. All the information given above is tabulated below:
Table-5: Types of Birth-place of the Living Being
S.No.
Living beings
Cold/hot
Livingful otherwise non-livingful
Covered/noncovered covered
cold/hot
mixed
3 types
mixed
Celestials Infernals Human beings (uterine-birthed) Sub-humans (a) Common-bodied (b) Individual-bodied (c) Deficient- sensed (d) Fire-bodied (e) One-sensed (others)
non-covered
livingful non-livingful 3 types
3 types 3 types 3 types Hot 3 types
covered
27. These nine types of birth places are said to have 84 lace (8.4 x 10°) of kinds due to different types of karmic realisations. All these kinds have been directly perceived by the omniscients through their divine eyes. They are known by the non-omniscients through the sciptures. They are as follows:
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