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Biology in Jaina Treatise on Reals
The 5-sensed living beings with mind are called Instinctive. This term has many meanings like (i) name (ii) knowledge (iii) basic propensities or behaviour like tetrad of four-instincts of food, fear, sex and possessions and (iv) thinking capacity about good or bad and pros and cons. It is the last meaning which has been accepted here for this term. Some scholars have called this term in terms of rational 7. Transmigratory Motion
The living beings have non-curved transmigratory motion to acquire new body in the space point of the universe due to the acitivity of the karmic body associated with the living beings. This motion depends upon the time and space. It is straight during acquirement of new birth, moving for salvation and moving from upper to lower or vice-versa space. The mattergies also move straight during motion towards the universe end. However, in other cases, there may be curved motion lasting upto three Samayas for the worldly being. These motions are named as arrow-like, hand dropping-like, plough shape-like and kine-urine-like requiring 1,2, 3. or 4 Samayas in order to reach the new destination. However, the straight motion lasts for 1 Samaya only. The worldly soul has karmic causes for motion. The soul can neither be inactive nor omnipresent, there will, otherwise, be loss of the ways of the world. 8. Intake
While under transmigratory motion, the living beings have no intake during the mono-Samayic motion as he has the agonic energy of leaving the world. However, he may have intake at his new destination. He may no intake for two or three Samayas during different types of curved motions, Intake may be at the destination point also. 9. Birth
There are three kinds of the birth of the worldly beings - (i) A-sexual or Agglutinational (ii) Uterine or sexual and (iii) special bed. The a-sexual birth is gross, short lived and directly perceptible in contrast with the other two births. The uterine birth requires longer time and special bed birthed infernals and celestials are longer lived. Hence their order, is justified. The specific birth of
ngs has the karmic origin. Hence there can not be a single birthplace for all the living beings.
The birth takes place through nine different types of birth places involving climate, temperature and covering conditions. The birth is the substrate in the substratum of birth place. The order of placement of birth places in 2.32 has been logistically justified. The word 'Ca' in the aph. 2.32 indicates a total of 84 lac birth places mentioned in scriptures and detailed in the explanatory.
There are three kinds of uterine birth - (i) Umbilical (ii) incubatory or oviparous and (iii) unumbilical. The term 'un-umbilically born' in place of unumbilical' does not carry any special meaning. The order of placing these three
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