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(v) Five-sensed organisms
28 to 41
(a) Denizens of hell
29
(b) Vertebrate animals
30 to 34
1. Aquatic animals
2. Terrestrial animals
32 & 33
3. Aerial animals
(c) Human Beings
35 to 38
(d) Denizens of heaven
It can be easily seen that the sequence adopted here is precisely the sameas thatadopted in Uttarādhyayana. The emphasis here is on giving more details of classification, viz. names of various classes. UTTARĀDHYAYANA SŪTRA
The title of the thirty-sixth chapter of Uttarādhyayana is “The Living organisms and Inanimate Things”. The first 47 verses deal with the inanimate objects. The subject of living organisms is dealt with in vv. 48 to 246 as under: Subject
Verse No. (1) Siddhātmās-Pure and Perfect souls
50 to 68 (2) Samsārī or Mundane Beings
69 to 246 (i) Three types of Immobile organisms 71 to 106
(a) Earth-bodied organisms
71 to 84
(b) Water-bodied organisms
85 to 92
(c) Plants—Vegetables
93 to 106
108 to 246
(ii) Three types of Mobile (trasa) being (a) Fire-bodied organism (b) Air-Bodied organisms
109 to 117
118 to 126
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