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A Hand Book of Jainology five senses) display the power of receiving the pudgals of the mind and of transmuting them into the form of the mind. In this manner, out of pudgals, the six powers, namely, food, body, senses, respiration, language and mind are produced. The Paryapta jiva (the jiva with potentialities) by the power of its Paryapt Nama Karma, produces all powers, and abilities, that are fit to it. The Aparyapta jivas are those that fall a victim to time (death) even before, their abilities or powers are fully formed. The Paryapt jivas are those that after their birth throughout their lives, by virtue of their powers, consume food and transmute it and attain development.
PRAN (THE POWER OF LIVING) :
The Pran (or life) present in the jiva is of ten kinds. The five sense-organs, three yogas (the manoyog, the vachanyog and the kayayog, the mental, the physical and the vocal powers) respiration and ayushya or life-span. Pranas are ten in number. But every jiva does not possess ten pranas. For instance, the. Ekendriya jivas possess only four pranas :
(1) The sense of touch (2) Respiration (3) Kayayog or body (4) Ayushya (life-span),
The Dwindriya jivas possess six pranas. They have in addition to the four mentioned above, the sense of taste, and the • power of articulation, The Trindriya has sense of smell in addition to those; and so it has seven pranas. The Chaturindriya 'has the sense of seeing and so it has eight pranas. The Panchendriya has the sense of hearing and so it has nine pranas and if it has mind also, it has ten pranas.
The Panchendriya jivas that do not possess a mind are called Asamjni jivas, and those that have a mind are called the Sainini jivas. In this manner, the Samjni jivas possess ten pranas. Samjni means those that can know or thinking beings. They can think of the cause and effect of the first and the later phases. The heavenly beings and the inhabitants of hell after attaining mind become Samjni jivas but there are such jivas among human beings and animals etc. as do not have a
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