Jaina Biology

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

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The World of Life : Plants
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and flowers produced by a plant, for its growing points produce primordia of leaves ( kisalaya ) and flowers (puspa ). Roots and stems are sometimes copfused, for many kinds of stems grow underground 19 and some roots 20 grow in the air. Fern and grasses 21 are examples of plants that have underground stems called rhizome in Botany. These grow just beneath the surface of the ground and give rise to above-ground leaves. Thickened under ground stems,22 adapted for food storage, called tubers in Botany, are found in plants, such as, suranakanda, vajrakanda, patato,23 etc. An onion bulb is an underground stem (kamda )24 surrounded by overlapping tightly packed scale leaves. Roots and stems are structurally quite different. Siems, but not roots have nodes (parva )25 which give rise to leaves. The tip of stem (agra ) 26 is naked unless it terminate in a bud.
Plant stems are either herbaceous 27 or woody.28 The soft, green, rather, thin herbaceous stems are typical of plants called annuals in Botany. Such plants start from seed (bija ), 29 develop, flower and produce seeds within a single growing season, dying before the following winter. Another type of herbaceous plant is the biennial,30 which has two-seasons' growing cycle. During the first season, while the plant is growing, food 19. “Sa Vāu Kamdajāi Sürana kando ya vajjaka ndo ya / Allahalidda ya tabā addam
taha allakaccuro 88 Sattāva vī, Virali kumāri taha thohari galo ia / up to Alū taha pindālu haravamti....../", Vide Lokaprakāśa, 5.88-92; Uttaradhyayana
Sūtra 36.97, 98, 99. e. g. Sūraņa (Arum campanulatum ) 20. Adventitious roots of Banian tres which issue from its branches. Gaduci's
(Gulañca ) roots ( advantitious ) grow in air, Jivavicära, v. 12. 21. Trņa, Uttarādhyayana Sūtra 36.94; Bhagavati, 21.
“Sediya bhattiya hottiya dabbha kuse pavvae ya podaila | Ajjuņa a sādhae rahiyamse suya veya khire tuse / Erandahe kuruvimde kukkhada sumthe tahā vibhangu ya Mahuratana
luņaya sippiya bod havve sumkalitaņa ya // ", Pannavaņā. 47.35, 16. 22. Lokaprakāśa, 5.88 62. 23. Uttaradhyayana Sūtra, 36.97-98: Vide Lokaprakāśa, 5.88-9. 24. Ibid., Uitarădhyayana Sūtra, 36.97; Gommațasāra, Jivakanda, 18, (Comm.) V.186. 25. Utta'adhyayana Sūtra, 36.95; Parva (node ), Paņņavana 46, 33-34, p. 19; Gomma
tasara, v. 186. (Jivakända ); Lokaparakāśa, 5.81,98; “ Vpkşā Guccha Gulmā
latāsca vallyasca parvagascaiva / (98) 26. Sūtrakrtānga II. 3.43; Gommațasāra, v. 16.6; "Malaggapirebajā kamda taha
khaṁdhabija bijaruha / Sammuccima ya bhaniya patterāhantakāyā ya " (186)
Bhagavati, 6.7.:4; :1..691. 27. Rice, etc.; " Sāli vīhi godhūma javajavā kala masura tilamugga / Māsa nipphava
kulattha alisamda satiņa palimantha " Ayasi Kusumbha Koddava kaṁgu rālaga varasāmaga ko. ūsā l! saņa sarisava mūlag, biya ja yāva anna ta hapaggalā //
Pannavaņā. 50, 42.43, pp. 20-21; Lokaprakāśa, 5.54-5). Setpadi 28. Lokaprakās, 5.79, 96. 29. Pannavanā, 50.42-43; Lokaprakāśa, 5.54-55; Bhagavati, 6.7.:46; 21.2.691. 30. Lokaprakāśa 5 89; Jivavicāra 10.