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these ? Matter without life, hot and exposed. Miśra is that which partakes of both natures, that is living and dead matter, hot and cold, covered and exposed. Ca indicates inclusion. It denotes that the combinations also become the places of birth. Ekasa means repetition. This is intended to indicate proper combination. It must be understood as follows-living matter and dead matter, cold and hot, covered and exposed. And it must not be understood as living matter and cold and 80 on. "That is intended to indicate the kinds of birth. These are the places of birth (nuclei) by spontaneous generation etc. These must be understood as the nine kinds of nuclei. Is there distinction between the place of birth and birth? Yes, there is as these are the container and the contained. These birth-places (nuclei) such as living matter are the containers. The contained are the kinds of birth. Wherefore, in the nuclei of living matter etc., the soul assimilates matter fit to be transformed into the body, food, the sense-organs, etc. through the three kinds of birth. The celestial and infernal beings take their origin in nuclei of nonliving matter. Their birth-place, the collection of matter in the abode of instantaneous rise, is lifeless. Those who take their birth from uteri have mixed nuclei. In their case, the semen and blood in the mother's womb are lifeless. But, as these are combined with the vitality of the living mother, it is called a mixed birth-place. The nuclei of the spontaneously generated are of three kinds. Some generate from living nuclei. Others generate from lifeless nuclei. And yet others generate from mixed nuclei. Those who have common bodies generate from living nuclei. How? They inhabit the common body reciprocally. The rest are of lifeless and mixed nuclei. The celestial and infernal beings take their rise from hot and cold nuclei. The places of their instantaneous rise are some of them cold and some of them hot. Those who possess bodies of heat take their rise in hot nuclei. The rest have three kinds of nuclei. Some have cold, some hot, and some others mixed nuclei. The nuclei of celestial, infernal and one-sensed beings are covered. Those with maimed senses, that is from
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