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Jaina Biology it.115 They do not define like Caraka116 and Buddha ghosa 117 that it is constructed out of five or four primary elements of matter. Nevertheless, they admit that the body is constituted of matter (Pudgala).118
The main aspects of the body as described by Jaina Biology are as follows: blood (šonita 119 or rudhira), 121 hard or congealed fat (meda), 121 semi-liquid fat (vasā), 122 synovia (rasiyā ?)123 spittle (Khela)124 snot (simghānaka),125 bile (pitta),126 phlegm (simbha),127 liver (yakrt)128 spleen (pilihā), 129 pus (Puya or puvva), 130 heart (hiyaya), 131 blood vessels (sirā-dhamanis),132 lymph vessels ( śleşmāśirā ),133 lymph (Kaph or simbha), 134 tissue fluid (rasa), 135 āņapāņa oruccbvāsa-niņśvāsat36 (Oxygen and carbon dioxide ?); lungs (Phopphasa - puphasa) 137 including eparterial bronchioles of trachea, mouth cavity (mukh),138 stomach (un dara'or amoru),139 duodenum (pakkāśaya), small intestine (tannuyasta),140
115. Tandula Veyaliya, 16, p. 35; 17, p. 38, etc. 116. Caraksamhita. IV. 6. 4. 117. Visudhimagga VIII, 45. 118. Tattvārthadhigamasutra, Umāsvāti V. 9. 119. Tandula Veyaliya, 3, p. 17. 120. Ibid. 16, p. 35. 121. Ibid, p. 40. 122. Ibd. 123. Ibid. 124. Ibid. 125, Ibid. 125. Ibid. 13, p. 41. 127. Tandula Veyaliya. pp. 12, 41. ; Kalyāņakaraka. 3. 4; p. 31, 128. Tandula Veyaliya ; Kalyaņakāraka, p. 3. 4, p. 3. 129. Tandula Veyaliya. p. 40. 130. Tandula Veyaliya 17. 38“ 131. Ibid. 132. Ibid., 16, p. 35; Kalyāṇakāraka 3. 4, p. 37. 133. Kalyāṇakāraka; 3. 19, p. 40. 134. Ibid 3, 7. p. 31. 139. Tandula Veyaliya. 16, p. 35. 136. Ibid, p. 8; Bhagavati 1. 7. 61-2; Viseşāva gyakabhäşya a, 2714. 137. Tandula Veyaliya, 17, p. 38. 138. Tandula Veyaliya, p. 38. 139. Tandula Veyaliya. 17, p. 38 (udara); Kalyāṇakāraka, 3, 4. p. 31 (āmoru). 140. Kalyāṇakāraka 3. 4.
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