Book Title: Jaina Gem Dictionary
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Publisher: ZZZ Unknown

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________________ Jaina Gem Dictionary. 1. Aquatic (fishes). 2. Terrestrial (beasts). 3. Aerial (bird ). These 3 have minds or not; and then, the paryāptaka, etc., 3 kinds of each, give 3x2x3=18 kinds. 16 of those of five-sensed beings of uterine birth (garbhaja). 12 of karma blueini (q. v.) Aquatic, Terrestrial and Aerial; each of these rational and irrational :-these 6 kinds being paryâpta or szirvrittya paryâpta. 4 of bhoga bhůmi (q.v.) Terrestrial and Aerial, being paryâpta and nirurittyaparyâpta. 9 Kinds are as follows: 8 Of Garbhaja or uterine birth. Those born in Arya khanda, Mlechchlia khanda, Bhoga bhumi, Kubhoga bhumi or antardvipaja, each one being paryâpta or nirvșittyaparyâpta, we have 8 kinds, 1 Of Saumurchchhana or beings spontaneously generated in the generative organs and arm-pits of women and dying as soon as they are born 18 times in one pulse-beat. They are too small to be visible to the naked eye and are always labdhiaparyâptaka. Jîvavipâkî (stafamonth-Soul-maturing Karma which affects the soul mainly.

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