Jaina Biology

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

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Cell Structures and Functions
tissue, fat, bonc, marrow, semen, etc., 12 inbriyaparyäpti13 ( vital force by which molecules of nutrients or chyles suitable for building serises are taken in and provided to the proper place so that beings can bave the perceptual knowledge of the desired sense-objects by the senseorgans )14 acchvāsaparyāpti15 ( Vital force by which particles of respiration are taken in, oxidized for energy and left out (as carbon dioxide and water ), bhāsāparyāpti16 (vital force by which beings, having taken proper particles of speech, emit them as speech ) and manaḥparyāpti17 ( vital force by which beings, having taken particles (or dusts] of mind, transform them by the mental process and give vent to them as the mental force, i. e. thought ).
It appears that this paryāpti (vitai force) is not a single substance but varies considerably from organism to organism (i.e. one-sensed to five-sensed being), among the various parts of a single animal or plant, and from one time to another 18 within a single organ or part of an animal or plant. There are six paryāptis, but they share certain fundamental physical and chemical characteristics. 19 12. Vaikriyahārā.... ....yathocltam
tam rasibhutamāharam yaya saktyä punarbhavi / Rasasrgmāmsamedosthimajjaśukradidhātūtām / nayedyathāsambhayam sa dehaparyāptirucyate // (19)
Lokaprakāśa, p. 65; Pt. I, 3rd Sarga. 13. Dhātutvena parinatādāhārādīnidriyocitān/
Ādaya pudgalāmstäni yathāsthānam pravidhaya // (20) Isțe tadvişayajñaptau yayā saktyä sariravān
paryāptiḥ sendriyahvanā darsitā sarvadarsibhiḥ (21) 1bid., pp. 65, 66. 14. According to the Prajñāpanā Sūtra (Indriyapada ), Jivabhigama Sūtra, Pravaca
nasāroddhāra (Com.) etc., the power by which the molecules of nutrients or
chyles which are ultilized for building of sense-organs are called indriyaparyāpti,
Vide, Ibid., p. 66. 15. Yayocchvāsājhamadaya dalam pariņamarya ca/
Tattayalambya muñcet so 'accvāsaparyaptiru cyate // (22) Ibid., p. 66. 16. Bhāsärham dalamadaya gistvam nitvavalambya ca /
yayā saktya tyajet prāņi bhāṣāparyāptiritpasau ” // (29) Ibid., p. 67. 17. Dalam lātvā manoyogyam tattāṁ nitvāvalambya ca/
yayā mananasaktah syānmanaḥparyāptiratra sā // (30) Ibid. 18. , Pajjattipațhavana m jugava m tu kamen hodi nitthavanam/amtomuhuttakālena
hiyakam á tattiyalāvā// Gommațasara (Jivakânda ), 120 . The gaining of the capacities starts simultamously, but the completion of each of them ) is effected gradually within the period of one antarmuhūrța, which increases in the case of cach succedding one. Yet their total period does not
exceed one antarmuhurta. 19. Ibid., 121.