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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 prānas, 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 prānas, namely: the above nine and also :
10. Force of mind. Beings with all the five senses of touch, taste, smell, seeing, and hearing, and force of body, force of speech, respiration and life duration (āyuh) are generated by the perspiration of some persons during sleep. These beings with five senses but liaving no mind are very minute.
We see by the above the order in which the senses are developed. A two sense living being, for instance, never has touch and smell, it is always touch and taste; and so on. The living beings which come under the second kind of five sense beings with mind are men, animals, birds, fish (of course these are only illustrations not exhaustive lists).
So that when we are in any state in which we do not use care and caution and in that state we tear asunder any of these prānas, then it is killing. The Sanskrit word for killing thus defined is "hinsā”. Hinsă can be done in the naraka (hell) state ; but after the separation the prānas come together again however, the pain of dread anxiety etc., is felt. In
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