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* According to the Jaina thought, agglutinated beings are weak, undeveloped and almost devoid of perceptive knowledge. Scientists also say that the beings produced by asexual reproduction are comparatively weaker and their capacity of adaption is lesser. * The possibility of cloning, tissue-culture, grafting etc. can be traced in the ancient concept of agglutination. * The Jaina texts say that all the beings, which are born by agglutination, are napumsakas. It is implied that for the further reproduction the same process of agglutination is followed. But the scientists say that the hermaphrodites reproduce further by sexual and asexual reproduction. * The Jaina term 'samūrochima manusya', suggests the possibility of human clone. The description of 'saṁmūrcchima manusyas' available in the Jaina texts imply that it is impossible to produce the exact 'garbhaja manusya' from the saṁmūrochima manusya. Genetic engineers are exerting a lot. But their experiments say that the clones do not have long life-spans and they do not possess the ability to reproduce. This observation is noted down in the experiment of the cloning of Dollysheep.
A lot of efforts have been made to prove the scientific nature of Jainaism by analyzing the six categories from the viewpoint of physics but there is a lot of scope to discover the Jaina thoughts from the viewpoint of botany, biology, zoology and genetics.
List of References 1) Tattvārtha. ch.2 2) Tattvartha. 2.32 3) Tattvārtha. 2.32 to 36 (with comm.) 4) Tattvārtha. 2.32 (with self-comm.) 5) Tattvārtha. 2.32 to 36 (with comm.) 6) Jĩvābhigama 1.128 ; Prajnapana 1.84 7) Gommatasāra (Jivakānda) 84 (with comm.) 8) Gommata sāra (Jivakanda) 90 (with comm.) 9) Gommațasāra (Jivakānda) 89 (with comm.) 10) Gommata sāra (Jivakända) 85 to 87 (with comm.) 11) Jivābhigama 1.15,64,74,79,82,85,101,128 12) Prajñāpanā 1.49 to 84 ; Gommațasāra (Jivakända) 93 (with comm.) 13) Prajnapana 1.84 ; 4.107 to 161 14) Prajnapana 1.49 to 84. 15) Samavāyānga prakirnaka 204,206 16) Samavāyānga prakirnaka 191,193 17) Ācārānga 1.1.5.99 to 117 ; Jivābhigama 1.66 to 74 ; Prajñāpanā 1.30 to 48 ; Satkhandāgama
(Dhavala, Jivasthäna); Gommatasāra (Jivakända) 184 to 195 18) Sūtrakrtānga (part II) 3.13 19) Dasavaikālika 4.8 20) Prajñāpanā 1.49 to 84 ; Tattvärtha. 2.34 to 36 (with comm.); Gommațasāra (Jivakända) 84
(with comm.) 21) Tattvārtha. p.78 22) Bhagavati 8.9 ; Jivābhigama 1.97 ; Uttarādhyayana 36.170 23) Abhidhänacintamani Nāmamälä 1201 ; 1356 24) Prajñāpanā 1.82 to 84
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