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exposed, or a combination of covered and exposed. The characteristics of a nucleus in case of each of the three kinds of birth will appear from the following tabular statement : Kinds of births.
Kinds of Nuclei
|(1) Non-living matter. Instantaneous rise (Upapáda) ... (2) Cold or hot.
(3) Covered. (3) Combination of (living and
non-living). Uterine birth
Combination of (covered and
exposed). (3) Cold, hot or their combi
nation. Spontaneous generation .. (1) Living or non-living matter
or their combination.
Cold, hot or their combination (1) Mobiles
Exposed. (2) One sensed ...
\(3) Covered सामण्णेण य एवं णव जोणीओ हवंति वित्थारे । लक्खाणचदुरसीदी जोणीओ हति णियमेण ॥८८ ॥ सामान्येन चैवं नवयानयो भवंति विस्तारे। लक्षाणां चतुरशीतिः योनयो भवंति नियमेन ॥ ८ ॥
88. Generally thus there are nine nuclei (but) in detail, there are by rule eighty-four Lakhs of Nuclei.
Commentary.
Note that all souls with 1, 2, 3, or 4 senses are necessarily born by spontaneous generation. Only the 5 sensed souls are born in all the 3 possible ways by spontaneous generacion, uterine birth, and instantaneous rise.
Note also that celestial and hellish beings are 5 sensed and born by instantaneous rise. Both are born in a covered nucleus, the celestial being born in a sort of box-bed and the hellish beings in a sort of bladder hung from the ceilings of their holes in hell.
Note also that all the egg-born souls must be five sensed although they may be with or without mind. The pigeon or dove is a five sensed being with mind. The nuclei for the hellish beings
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