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THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE JAINAS.
पुढवीआदिचउण्हं केवलियाहारदेवणिरयंगा। अपदिद्विदा णिगोदहिं पदिहिदंगा हवे सेसा ॥ २०॥ पृथिव्यादिचतुणी केवल्याहारदेवनिरयाङ्गानि । अप्रतिष्ठितानि निगोदैः प्रतिष्ठिताङ्गा भवन्ति शेषाः ॥ २० ॥
200. The bodies of earth quadrates (earth, water, fire, air), of an omniscient being, (of a saint) in Aháraka (assimilative) emanation and (those) of celestials and hellish beings, do not support Nigoda bodies (Host souls.) The rest are with host souled-bodies.
Commentary. We learn from this Gatha that with the exception of the eight kinds of bodies specified above, all other bodies possess Nigoda-bodied souls.
मसुरंखुबिंदुसूईकलाबधयसरिणहो हवे देहो। पुढवीआदिचउण्हं तस्तसकाया अणेयविहा ॥ २०१ ॥ मसूराम्बुबिन्दुसूचीकलापध्वजसन्निभो भवेद्देहः। पृथिव्यादिचतुणी तरुत्रसकाया अनेकविधाः ॥ २०१ ।।
201. The bodily figures of the earth quadrates (i. e. earth, water, fire, and air) are, (respectively speaking), (circular) like Masúr grain, (round like) a drop of water, (cylindrical like) a bundle of needles, (and oblong like) a flag. The bodies of vegetables and mobile souls are of various sorts.
Commentary, The size of the body of an earth, water, fire, and air soul is the innumerable part of a cubic finger. Therefore they are not visible as separate entities. We see them only in a mass. Take a glass of fresh water. Every drop of it is a mass of water-bodied souls which are obviously invisible to us. Under a microscope a drop of water is seen to possess many minute animal-cule. These are not waterbodied souls. Water-bodied souls have water and that alone as the matter of their bodies. These animal-culæ are two or more sensed beings which live in water.
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