Jain Biology

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

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13. World-view
--drsti 14. Intuition
- darśana 15. Knowledge
- jñāna 16. Activity
-yoga (of Body, Speech, Mind) 17. Activity of Consciousness — upayoga 18. Appropriation of material —āhāra
objects 19. Metempsychosis
-upapāta 20. Life-span
--stithi 21. Expansion of soul-units – Māraṇāntika samudghāta
out-side the body 22. Departure from past life -cyavana
23. Transmigration (to and from) ---gatyāgata The Jīvājīvābhigama Sūtra disseminates detailed information about the association of each class of living organisms with the above twentythree characteristic features. SŪTRAKRTĀNGA SŪTRA
The author of Sutrakstānga, Arya Sudharma, has, however, adopted a special stle, quite different from other Sūtras. While an ascending order is adopted in the other scriptures, this Sūtra starts with the vegetable kingdom. Plants are divided into twelve categories on the basis of their place of origin and the way they obtain their nourishment and devotes as many as 43 paragraphs of the chapter for describing them.
1. Trees which grow from earth - Pythviyonika Vrkșa
2. Trees which grow from 1. (supra) – Vrkṣayonika adhyāroha
Virkșa
1. Sūtrakrtānga Sūtra, Part II, Ch. 3, Sūtra 1-43
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