Jainism Precepts and Practice

Author(s): Puranchand Nahar, Krishnakant Ghosh
Publisher: Caxton Publications

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PREDICAMÉNTS. range of the vegetable kingdom, are known as Jivas belonging to the Sthåvara class Symptoms of life in these Saprån Sthavar ( a gat) or living fixtures consist, amongst other phenomena, in responsiveness which evidently involve memory as displayed in the mental activity of feeling, cognition and re-cognition
(ii) Tras Fivas-are those who have the power of locomotion and are grouped into the tas. four kinds according to the nature and number of the sense-organs they are the four possessed of The four kinds of Tros Fras Tras, are ,
(a) those that have the organs of touch and taste, (nice and refreu ) eg., leeches, worms, etc
(b) those that have three organs such as touch, taste and smell, ( figü, reforum and Tobago ) eg, ants, lice, etc
(c) those that have organ of sight (नयनेन्द्रिय ) in addition to the above three orgaus, eg, bees, scurpions, etc.
(d) and, lastly, those that have all the above four organs in addition to that of the hearing ( Tafsu ) Tlus last kind of
kinds of the