Jain Journal 2004 07

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

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essence of chyle, especially on the teja-substance therein, and imports to it a red pigment, transforming it into blood. The grosser part of chyle (sthülabhāga) proceeds along the Dhamani (arteri) being driven by vyānavāyu (bio-motor force) all over the body. On the formation of blood the essence of chyle in the blood acted on by vāyu and māṁsāgni (the flesh forming metabolic heat) forms flesh-tissue (māṁsa). Of the flesh tissue, thus formed, the grosser part goes to feed or replenish the flesh tissue all over the body. The finer essence of flesh in the blood, in the chyle, acted on again by vāyu and fat forming metabolic heat (meda-agni) in the menstruum of lymph (kapam samāsritya) receives viscocity and whiteness and produces the fatty tissue.
This fat in the chyle (or blood) or rather the grosser part of it, replenishes the fatty tissue of the body, but the finer essence of fat in the flesh, in blood, in the chyle, acted on by vāyu and the marrowforming metabolic heat, in the menstruum of lymph (slesmanavrta) becomes hard (crystalline) and forms bone. The essence of the fat fills the hollow channels of the bones, and acted on again by the vāyu and metabolic heat, gets transformed into the semen, which is conveyed down by means of a pair of dhammanis or ducts (dveśukravahe) lodged in its receptacles (sukradhara vrsanaya) and discharged by means of another pair of ducts. The semen, or rather all events in their finer offence, give off ojas, which returns to the heart, the receptacle of chyle and blood, and again floods the body and sustains the tissues, thus completing the wheel or self-returning circle of metabolism35.
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References 1. Gommațasāra (karmakāņda), 11
Tattvārthasūtra, 1/4
Bhagavatisútra, 20.2.665 4. Ibid, 33-1-844, 22-1-692, 23.4.693
Ibid, 2.10.118 6. Vide Jaina Biology, J.C. Sikadar, p. 17 7. Biology, A vital, p. 17 8. Ibid, p. 17
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