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LECTURE XXXVI.
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7. Movable beings with organic bodies (i.e. animals) are of four kinds: i. those possessing two organs of sense, ii. those with three organs, iii. those with four organs, iv. those with five organs. (127)
i. Beings with two organs of sense are of two kinds: subtile and gross ones. Both are either fully developed or undeveloped. Learn from me their subdivision 1. (128)
Worms, Somangala, Alasa 2, Mâivâhaya 3, Vâsîmuha *, shells, conches, Sankhânaga; (129)
Pallôya, Anullaya, cowries, leeches, Gâlaga, and Kandana. (130)
These and others are the with two organs of sense. a part of the world only, they do not live everywhere. (131)
many kinds of beings All of them live in
With regard to the continuous flow, &c. (as in verse 80). (132)
1 As many of these lower animals are not known to us, I give the Prâkrit names of those which I cannot identify. Dêvêndra says: 'Some of them are well known, the remaining ones are to be explained according to tradition.' The explanation of this passage in the Avakûri is fuller.
2 A small poisonous animal. Petersburg Dictionary, s. v. According to the Gîvavikâra Vritti V, 16, they are earth-snakes (bhûnâga), which originate in the rainy season when the sun is in Asleshâ, i. e. about the beginning of July.
3 Mâtrivâhaka.
According to the description of the Avakuri, the larvae of Phryganeae seem intended. According to the Gîvavikâra Vritti, they are called kûdêlî in Guzeratî.
* Vâsîmukha, explained: Whose mouth is like a chisel or adze. There are many insects, e.g. the Curculionidae, which suit this description.
5 Sankhânaka, 'very small, conch-like animals.'
6 Kandana Akâvriksha (?). According to the Gîvavikâra Vritti V, 16, they are animals living in water and on land, and are called Aksha in the vernacular (samayabhâshâ).
