Book Title: Jaina Sutras 02 Uttaradhyayan Sutra and Sutrakritang Sutra
Author(s): Hermann Jacobi
Publisher: Max Muller

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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) 220 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.

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