Sambodhi 1975 Vol 04

Author(s): Dalsukh Malvania, H C Bhayani
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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J. C. Sikdar
vegetable growths like herbs,31 The plants which come under Oşadhi contain the healing power,85 while those under the head of Virudh do not have medicinal properties 38 The word "Tīna' denotes grasses.37 The word 'Pašu'39 in the Vedic texts indicates animals including man, while the word Jagat stands for domestic animals as against Svāpada (wild animals). 39
Further thought about the world of life brings to mind such forins of life, such es, mushrooms and pond scuns (Sevāla), etc. quite different but reconizable as plants, and insects,42 worms, 43 etc. that are definitely anitoals.
Fundamentally, plants and animals, as mentioned in the Jaina Āgamas. are alive in many ways, both are made of cells44 as structural and functional units and both have many metabolic processes 45 in common. But there are some obvious ways and some obscure ways in which they differ.
Piants cells, in general, secrete a hard outer cell wall of cellulose (tuac) 46 which encloses the living cells and supports the plant, while animal cells 47
34. "Na lat parhivyen 10 divi yena prinanti vgrudhah, Atharvaverda, 1.32.1.
lunrunmudhajaza madhui ka khunāmasi / madhoradhi prajātāsi sã no madhimalaskdhill, Atharrareda, 1.04. *Aghadi: a devajita vartaluputluyopani | Apu malumíru pravu sarvan macchaputhan adhi" II, Ibid. ii. 7.1. I've agne ville ampteso atruha äsa devi hariradant yahutani 1, Twaya martisak svadunu osutin fra carbho virudhain jajnişe süchilll .
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Saàhitā, 2.5, 3.2. Vedie hapadhāvadoriram
kim yuvisho na sin
we r www i felg keren sastri juga pula," et. RgVeda 10.97. 1-22.
"Osadhe pisalapokëntel", Amarakoski, 661; In Jain literarure also Oşadhi denotes cercals-sāli-bihi, etc. Pannavanā 1.50.
Vedic Index 1, p. 125. 36. "Pythejmanu svarechar lado saulayo virudlo abbavansa prajāpatimapādhāvadvriram
me jaghnu sa indriyar Viriam", Tuitririya Sasthita, 2.5, 3.2. Vedic, Index, p. 125. 37, "Kims resha kiin yuvisho na ējagan........agne bhrātardruna ida bhülimadima" 1
RgVeda 1.161.1. "Yad vā glāsya Frabhylamāsye tynai sarva" Ibid l. 162.8
Nasmar trupu nodakamē, etc. Ibid., 10, 102. 10. 38. Vedic Invex I, p. 509; Taittiriya Samhita, 4.2.10, 1-4, 39. "Uttam usyo adhinžmanaigiran jagatamiva vyāghra) svāpadāmiva" | Atharvaveda
väi, 3.11, vide Vedic Index I p. 268. 40. Kuhana (a kind of mushrooms which causes the earth to burst), Urtarādh ya jalla
$6,95. 41. Sevala: See Satrakrtānga II 3.55. 42. (Kunthu), Uttaradhyayana 36.137, 43. Urtarëdhyayana 36.128 (Kymi). 44. Abbuza (cell), tic., Tanaulaveyaliya V.2, p. 6. 45. Tarkarahasydipika, Tikä on V. 49. Gunararna on Sadarsanasainliccaya. 46. Satraktônga, II. 3.47. (Trac)
Gomma/asara (Jivakanga), 188, 189 (Challi). 47. Ibid. They have ajina (skin), Sütrakrtanga II, 2,18.