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UTTARADHYAYANA.
The duration of the life of beings with two organs of sense is twelve years at the utmost; the shortest is less than a muhurta. (133)
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The longest duration of the body of beings with two organs of sense is a Samkhyêya (or measurable time) if they do not leave that (kind of) body; the shortest is less than one muhûrta. (134)
135, 136=83, 84. Substitute 'beings with two organs of sense' for Earth Lives.
ii. Beings with three organs of sense are of two kinds: subtile and gross ones. Both are either fully developed or undeveloped. Learn from me their subdivision. (137)
Kunthu1, ants, bugs, Ukkala, white ants, Tanahâra, Katthahâra, Mâlûga 2, Pattahâraga; (138)
Duga shining like lead, which originate in the kernel of the cotton-seed, Sadâvari, centipedes, Indagâiya; (139)
Cochineal, &c. Thus they are of many kinds. All of them live in a part of the world only, they do not live everywhere. (140)
(Substitute
141-145132-136. beings with three organs of sense.' The longest duration, &c., is forty-nine days, verse 142 = 133.)
iii. Beings with four organs of sense are of two kinds: subtile and gross ones. Both are either
1 Kunthu or animalcules are also called Anuddharî, see concerning them, Kalpa Sutra, Rules for Yatis, § 44, part i, p. 304.I give in the text the Prâkrit form of the words I cannot identify.
2 Mâlûka is the name of a plant, Ocimum Sanctum. It must, of course, here denote some animal.-The Gîvavikâra enumerates many other animals, lice, bugs, different kinds of larvae living in dung, corn, &c.-The trinabâra, kâshthahâra, and patrahâra seem to denote different kinds of ants.
