Illuminator of Jaina Tenets

Author(s): Tulsi Acharya
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati

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Niluminator of Jaina Tenets
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to quit their position being subject to natural afflictions. Those again which have mobile body can move away from a position of disadvantage to one of advantage. They are called trasas, being derived from Vtras, to move. ४. पृथिवी-अप-तेजो-वायु-वनस्पतिकायिका एकेन्द्रियाः स्थावराः।
पृथिवी कायो येषां ते पथिवीकायिका इत्यादि । एते च एकस्य स्पर्शनेन्द्रियस्य सद्भावादेकेन्द्रियाः स्थावरसंज्ञां लभन्ते । पञ्चस्वपि स्थावरेषु सूक्ष्माः सर्वलोके, बादराश्च लोकैकदेशे। सर्वेऽपि प्रत्येकशरीरिणः, वनस्पतिस्तु साधारणशरीरोऽपि । přthivi-ap-tejo-vāyu-vanaspatikāyikā ekendriyāḥ sthāvarāḥ. prthivi kāyo yeşāṁ te prthivīkāyikā ityādi. ete ca ekasya sparśarendriyasya sadbhāvād ekendriyāḥ sthāvarasamjnāṁ labhante. pañcasv api sthāvāreņu sūkşmāḥ sarvaloke, bādarāś ca lokaikadese. sarve'pi pratyekaśarīriņaḥ, vanaspātis tu sādhāraṇaśarīro'pi.
(Aph.) The one-sensed beings viz. earth-bodied, water-bodied, firebodied, air-bodied and plants are immobile beings. (IV)
(Gloss) The earth-bodied are those which have earth as their body. and so on. They are one-sensed because they have only one sense viz. touch, and are designated as immobile beings. ,
Among the five kinds of immobile beings, again, the subtle ones are spread over the whole of the cosmic space while the gross ones occupy only a part of it.
All these have their own individual bodies. Plants and trees, however, can possess a common body as well,
(Note) The common body, though inhabited by a number of living beings each having a distinct individuality of its own, serves as the common medium of inspiration and respiration, assimilation of food and the like. ५. द्वीन्द्रियादयस्त्रसाः।
कृमि-पिपीलिका-भ्रमर-मनुष्यादीनां क्रमेण एकैकेन्द्रियवृद्ध्या द्वीन्द्रियादयस्त्रसा ज्ञेयाः । क्वचित् तेजोवायू अपि । पृथिव्यादिषु प्रत्येकमसंख्येया जीवाः । वनस्पतिष संख्येय-असंख्येयअनन्ताः । द्वीन्द्रियादिषु पुनरसंख्येयाः। समानजातोयांकुरोत्पादात्, शस्त्रानुपहतद्रवत्वात्, आहारेण