Dravyasamgraha

Author(s): Nemichandra Acharya, Vijay K Jain
Publisher: Vikalp

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Dravyasamgraha
and life tending towards an earth bodyl. That which has no consciousness and has the quality of hardness as its own nature is earth. Though it has no consciousness, even in the absence of the fruition of earth name karma, it is called earth as it is characterized by spreading etc. Or earth is common to the other three also. The earth body is that which has been abandoned by the soul present in it, similar to the dead body of a man. The earth creature is that which has earth for its body (namely the soul that lives in an earth body). The earth soul is that which has acquired the name karma of earth body, and is in transit with the karmic body, but has not actually entered the earth body. Similarly with regard to water etc. These five kinds of living beings are immobile lives. How many life principles or vitalities do these possess? They possess the four vitalities of the sense-organ of touch, strength of body or energy, respiration and life-duration.
Jain, S.A., Reality, p. 62-63.
Ācārya Umasvami's Tattvārthasūtra
द्वीन्द्रियादयस्त्रसाः ॥
(2-14)
The mobile beings are from the two-sensed beings onwards.
Ācārya Pujyapada’s Sarvārthasiddhi ... The two-sensed beings have six (life principles), namely the sense of taste and the organ of speech in addition to the former four. The three-sensed beings have seven with the addition of the sense of smell. The four-sensed beings have eight with the addition of the sense of sight. In the animal world the five
earth (Pșthivī), earth body (Pșthivīkāya),
earth creature (Pịthivīkāyika), and earth soul (Pșthivī-jīva)
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