Jaina Biology

Author(s): J C Sikdar
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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Jaina Biology
outgrowths of skin - hair (keša ),71 body-hairs (romas),72 and nails ( ankha ),73 sweat ( seya ),74 skeleton (atthiya ),75 bones (atti),76 various parts of the skeleton,77 The number of bones,78 bone marrow (atthimimja ),79 brairi matter (mauthulumga )80 joints (samdhi )81 firmness of joints (samdhāyana ),81a pieces of muscle (māṁsapeši), 82 nerves (ṇhāru ),83 ligaments ( Kamdarā ?)84, tendous (māṁsarajju ) 85, sense – organs (indriyas , 86 and a few endocrine glands - seminal ducts and testes,87 ovaries,88 (Kucchi ? or Garbha saya ?) fallopian tubes (sirädugam),89 uterus ( yoni ),90 etc.
71. Ibid., ?, p. 7.
72. Ibid.
73. Ibid.
74. Ibid., p. 40 (seya) 75. Ibid., p. 41. 76. Ibid., 6, p. !0; 16, p. 35. 77. Ibid., 16, p. 35, 17, p. 38. 78. "Tinni atthidamasayain", Tandula Veyaliya,-16, ; p. 35; Kalyāṇakāraka, 3.2. 79. Tandula Veyaliya, 6, p. 16. ; Bhagavati Sūtra 1. 7. 6!-2. *0. Tandula Veyāliya 6, p. 1', ; Bhagavati Sūtra 1. 7., 61-2. 81. Tandula Veyaliya 16, p. 35. "Sathi samdhisayam 8a Lokaprakāśa 3. 399, p. 132. 82. Tandula Veyaliya 2, p. 6. 16, p. 35. ; Kalyäņakāraka, 3. 2. 83. Tandula Veyaliya 16, p. 35. Kalyaņākāraka 3. 2, p, 30. 84. Kāndarā mens thick (or big) nerves. They may be ligaments also. See Kalyāņa
kāraka 3.4, for Kamdarn.
85. Kalyānakāraka 3. 4, p. 31.
86. Bhagavati 2. 4.9); Pannavaņā Sutta 15. Indriyapada ; Tandula Veyaliya 3, p.
7: Tattvārtha Sūtra II. 15 “Pancendriyāni”
87. Seminal ducts, testeş, “Dasasirão Sukkadhāriņio", Tapdula Veyāliya, 16, p. 35.
Even Tanuyamta (Small intestine) and Taūlanta (large intestine) are regarded as
endocrine glands. 88. Garbhägaya ? Sthānnşa Tikā 6 ; kuccāi? | Tandula Veyaliya, 16 p. 35) Vide
Tandula Veyaliya, p. 4. 89. “Nābhihitthā siradugām”, Tandula Veyaliya, p. 3. 90. "Tassa ya bitthā joni ahomūhā samthiya kosa I” Ibid.