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21. MĀRANĀTIKA SAMUDGHĀTA—EXPANSION OF SOUL-UNITS
BEYOND THE BODY, IMPOUNDING DEATH
As explained in the 9th characteristic feature, the third type of samudghāta is undertaken when the death is in proximity. During this samudghāta, the soul projects its soul-units outside the present body and reaches the place of new birth, and returns back and then after death, it leaves the present body and takes birth in the new life-form.
In the present topic, it is described whether a soul belonging to a particular soul-group (life-form) would undertake the māraṇātika samudghāta or not.
22. CYAVANA-DEPARTURE FROM THE PAST LIFE
When the soul leaves a particular life-form, it is called cyavanadeparture. In the present topic, it is described whereafter departure, where they can take their re-incarnation. 23. GATYĀGATI—TRANSMIGRATION-TO (GATI) AND TRANS
MIGRATION FROM (ĀGATI)
Alllife-forms are divided into four kinds of 'order of existence', viz.,
1. Infernal
3. Human
2. Sub-human
4. God
In the present discussion, we get the information about the gati and ügati in a particular life-form.
In the following table, the numbers of gati and āgati are given, the serial number of them being the same as given above. Sūtrakstānga Sūtra
Though the title of Chapter No.3 of Part II of this scripture is given as "Science of Nutrition (āhāra parijña)”, a more appropriate title would be "Science of Living Organisms”. More than 40 paragraphs deal with vegetable kingdom, i.e. Botany and the remaining ones deal with other classes of living organisms, i.e. zoology.
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