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body-making karma. The sex inclination is due to the operation of the sex, (Veda) sub-class of the deluding-karma (mohaniya).
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Celestial and hellish beings, and those born in the Bhoga-bhúmi, and those born by spontaneous generation have the sex inclination corresponding to their sex organ, but this is not essential in the rest the human and the sub-human beings.
सहमणिगोद पज्जयस्स जादस्स तदियसमयम्हि | अंगुल असंखभागं जहर मुक्कस्तयं मच्छे ॥ ६४॥ सूक्ष्मनिगोदापर्यातकस्य जातस्य तृतीय समये । अंगुला संख्यात भागं जघन्यमुत्कृष्टं मत्स्ये ॥ ६४ ॥
94: The size of the body of a fine-bodied and non-developable (Nigoda) soul in the third instant after it has taking birth in its nucleus (i. e. after its vigrahagati or passage for transmigration) is an innumerable part of one (cubic) finger (anguli). This is the minimum (bodily size). The maximum size is fonnd in the fish born in the last and the biggest ocean called Svayambhúramana of the world.
Commentary.
The body of a fine-bodied non-developable Nigoda-vegetable soul is oblong in the first instant of its birth, square in the second instant, and in the third instant it contracts and becomes circular. In the circular state the dimentions of its body are at their minimum, after the third instant it begins to grow.
साहिय सहरसमेकं वारं कोसूरा मेक मेकं च ।
जोय सहस्सदीहं पम्मे वियले महामच्छे ॥ ६५ ॥ साधिकसहस्रमेकं द्वादश क्रोशोनमेकमेकं च ।
योजन सहस्रदीर्घ पद्मे विकले महामत्स्ये ॥ ६५ ॥
95. Amongst one-sensed beings the lotus (plant of Svayambhúramana, the last continent is) a little over one thousand Yojanas, high and one (Yojana) in diameter,
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