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parents' developed organs ( mātr-angas and pitr-angas)26 and is not necessarily affecied by their idiosyncracies.
In fact, the parental seed is an organic whole independent of the developed parental body and its organs. According to Brahmanical Biology"In the parental (seed ) an element representing a particular organ or tissue may happen (for this is accidental, daiva) to be defective or underdeveloped or otherwise abnormally characterized, and in this case the corresponding organ or tissue of the offspring will be similarly characterized."'.27
The Sukradhārini Sirās28 (seminal nerves or ducts ) contain the parental seed (piusukkaṁ )29 which is a minute organism deriving its elements from the parenial organs but distinct from the latter, and independent of their peculiarities and it is the combination and characteristics of these constitutional elements of the parental
eed in the reproduction tissue that determine the physiological characters and predispositions of the offspring. Germplasm (sukka ?)30 is not only the representative of the "Somatic tissues (muscular, (māṁsape si ), adipose (meda ), bone (asthi ) connective and nervous tissues etc. but also generates31/a and is generated32 by the latter. This mutual interaction of the germ - plasm and so matic tissues (pesi ) is a distinctive feature of Jaina Biology's hypothesis, the value of which should be estimated by the Biologists.
26 Tandula Veyaliya 6.
"Yaccoktam yadica mamanuş yo manuşyas rabhab kasmanna jadadibhyo jātah pitrsadrśarūpā na bhavanti, tatrocyate yasya yasyashi angāvayavasya bije bijabhāva upatapto bhavati tasya angāvayasya vikặtih upajayāte l",
Caraka, Siriras:hāne. 3rd raricchda. 27. P. S. A. H., p. 235.
Sarvarya ya ca atmajānīndriyāni tesām bhāvābhāva hetih dairam/"
Caraka. Sarirasthāna. 3rd pariccheda. 28 Tandula Veyaliya 16, p. 35. 29. Ibid, 1-2 30. Tandula Veyaliya 1. 31. Lokaprakāśa 1.3.: 9, ( Rasasrgmamsamedo asthimajjaśukradi dhātutām /"
"Paitrkāngani sukravikārabahulaityartbah /''Tandula Veyaliya 6 (commentary) 31/a Tandula Veyaliya, 1, 2, p. 6
"Imo Khalu Jivo ammapiusamyoge mau-uyam piusuk kam tam tadubhayasam - sattham Kalu sam.....sattahań Kalalam hoi, satta har hoi abbuyam / abbuya
Jāyae pesi, .. .. .. 700 pamca pesisayaim," etc. 32. Lokaprakāśa, 1.3.19.
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