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36. LIVING CREATURES AND THINGS WITHOUT LIFE In this chapter Mahāvira deals with living beings and those without life, classifying them for the edification of the Jain community. Jacobi (SBE 45. 206-207, note) analyses the chapter clearly, and I reproduce his analysis. The numbers in parentheses are to the stanzas.
Things without Life (3-48)
Without form (5-9)
With form (10-48) Living Beings (48-246)
Perfected souls (50-68) Mundane beings (69-246) Immoveable beings (71-106)
Earth lives (71-84) Water lives (85-92)
Plants (93-106) Moveable beings (108-246)
Fire lives (109-117) Wind lives (118-126) Beings with an organic body (127-246)
With two organs of sense (128-136) With three organs of sense (137-145) With four organs of sense (146-155) With five organs of sense (156-246)
Denizens of hell (157-170) Animals, vertebrate (171-193)
Aquatic (171-178) Terrestrial (179-186)
Aerial (187-193) Men (194-202) Gods (203-246)
Bhavanavāsin (205, 218) Vyantara (206, 219) Jyotişka (207, 220) Vaimānika (208, 221-246)
Living in Kalpas (209, 210, 221-232) Living above the Kalpas (211)
Graiveyakas (212, 213, 233-241)
Anuttaras (214-217, 242, 243) Appendix (247-267)
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