Jain Biology

Author(s): Jethalal S Zaveri, Mahendramuni
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati

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earth-bodied organisms and ends with the highest level of devas (gods). This is quite different from the third scripture as we shall presently see. JĪVĀJĪVĀBHIGAMA SŪTRA
The treatise in this scripture is quite different from the others. Here the dissertation is rather of a specialized nature. It deals with twentythree characteristic features of living organisms, describing the association of each feature with different classes of living organisms. The classification itself is conventional and the organisms are dealt with in an ascending order of sequence, as in Uttaradhyayana Sūtra, i.e., starting with the earth-bodied organisms and ending with devas. The sutras are in prose and in the form of question-answer-Gautama, the chief disciple and ganadhara being the querist and Bhagavān Mahāvīra himself giving the answers.
The twenty-three characteristic features are:'
1. Number and types of Bodies - śarīra
2. Extension in
space
3. Physical structure
4. Configuration
5. Passions
6. Unlearned Instincts
7. Aural colouration
8. Number of sense-organs
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9. Expansion of soul-units
(beyond the body)
10. Possession of brain
11. Sex
12. Number of bio-potentials
1. Jīvājīvābhigame, Ch. 1, Sūtra 14
JAIN BIOLOGY
-avagāhanā
-samhanana
--samsthāna
-kaṣāya
-samjñā
-leśyā
-indriya
-samudghāta
-samjñi-asamjnī
-veda
- paryāpti
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