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An Epitomne of Jainism
growing in a quarry cannot run away before the scythe, axe, or spade which threatens to put an end ot its life. This capacity to be able to take one's body from one place to another divides souls in the universe into Immobiles like stones in quarry, vegetables, trees, etc., and Mobiles like men, animals, birds, etc.
Observation will show that all one-sensed souls are immobile, incapable of voluntary change of place; and that all the other souls are mobile, who can at will run away from danger or death.
The classes are said to be 14 in Gáthá 72; 57 in Gáthá 73: 98 in Gáthá 79 and 80; and 570 in Gáthá 78. But we can classify them into 406 soul-classes, also, as below:
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1
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Sub-human
One-sensed, having the sense of Touch only. Earth-bodied Soft
Hard Water-bodied Fire-bodied
Each one of Air-bodied
the 7 is Fine Vegetable
or Gross, Non-one-souled
.: 7x2=14 Ever-one-body-many-souled
er (Nitya-Nigoda) .. Other One-body-many-souled
(Itara-Nigoda) .. One souled Host-one-souled Trunk Creeper
.. 16 Plant Tree
Root Non-host-one-souled --Trunk
Creeper Plant Tree
Root Two-sensed, having Touch and Taste .. Three-sensed, having Touch, Taste and Smell Four-sensed, having Touch, Taste, Smell & Sight Five-sensed (42), as per detail below: In Work Region, Five-sensed Irrational.
Aquatic Terrestrial Aerial .. 3
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Each one of the 27 is developable, poten
tially developable, or totally undevelopable; therefore 27 x 3=81
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