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GOMMATASARA.
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तिरियंतिकुडिलभावं सुविउलसण्णा णिगिट्टमण्णाणा।
अञ्चंतपावबहुला तम्हा तेरिच्छया भणिया ॥ १४८॥ तिरोश्चन्ति कुटिलभावं सुविवृतसंज्ञा निकृष्टमज्ञानाः। अत्यन्तपापबहुलाः तस्मात् तैरश्चिका भणिताः ॥ १४८ ॥
148. Tiryanchas (crooked or subhuman souls) are so called because they adopt crooked thought-activities, have open indulgence in their animate feelings, are in a very low position (as regards their body-enjoyment, etc.,) have little knowledge, and have multifarious grave demerits, मण्णंति जदो णिचं मणेण णिउणा मणुकडा जम्हा । मण्णुठभवा य सव्वे तम्हा ते माणुसा भणिदा ॥ १४६॥ मन्यन्ते यतो नित्यं मनसा निपुणा मनसोत्कटा यस्मात् । मनूद्भवाश्च सर्वे तस्मात्ते मानुषा भणिताः ॥ १४६ ॥
149. Mánushah (men) are so called because they always have discrimination, are mentally well-qualified, strong of will, and are descended from the Manus (or Kulakaras, the leaders of men).
Commentary. Manus or Kulakaras are born in the Bharata and Airavata Kshetras just at the beginning of the transformation of Bhogabhumi or enjoyment conditions into Karma-bhumi or work-condi. tions. They are sixteen in number, and one follows the other, after definite intervals. They instruct the people into the new ways of living, and hence they have been spoken of as the chief ancestors of all men. In the present age, here, Nábhi Rája was the fourteenth, his son Shri Rishabha-Deva, the first Tirthamkara, the fifteenth, and his son Bharata Chakravarti, after whom the country is called Bharat-Kshetra, was the last and the sixteenth.
सामण्णा पंचिंदी पज्जत्ता जोणिणी अपज्जत्ता। ... तिरिया णरा तहावि य पंचिदिय भंगदो हीणा ॥ १५०॥ सामान्याः पञ्चेन्द्रियाः पर्याप्ताः योनिमत्या अपर्याप्ताः। तिर्यश्चो नरास्तथापि च पञ्चेन्द्रियभङ्गतो हीनाः॥ १५० ।।
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