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FIRST VRATA
... Beings wbich have only these four forces of life are vegetables, trees, water beings, air beings, and fire beings.
Beings with two sense organs have six pranas, namely the above four and also:
5. Sense of taste. 6. Force of speech.
They have the means or power of communicating among themselves, which can be called speech. Shell beings, and protozoa.
Beings with three sense organs have seven pranas, namely the above six and also:
7. Sense of smell. Ants, lice, bed bugs, are instances of such beings.
Beings with four senses have 8 pranas, namely the above seven and also:
8. Sense of sight. Wasps, bees, scorpions are instances of such living beings.
Beings with five senses are of two kinds, the first kind have no mind ( manas, mind as meant in the Jain philosophy ), and these beings have nine pranas, namely the above eight and also:
9. Sense of hearing. and the second kind have mind as meant in the Jain philosophy and they possess ten pranas, namely: the above nine and also:
10. Porce of mind.
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