Sambodhi 1975 Vol 04

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

Page 18

J. G. Sikdar
pests are born in the host plants and destory thousands of trees and crop including paddy and wheat, etc. by feeding on their sap.
These parasites are movable benigs and may obtain their nutrient by ingesting and digesting solid particles or absorbing organic molecules through their cell walls from the body fluids or tissues of the host.
The children of the developing embryos at first feed on the menses of the mother and the semen of the father or both combined into unclean foul (substance). And afterwards they absorb with a part of their bodies) the essence of whatever food the mother takes. After birth the babies suck the mother's milk but when they grow older, they eat boiled rice or gruel or both movable and immovable beings. These beings consume earth bodies, etc. up to assimilated by them (21),88
This mode of nutrition of human beings is scientifically true and it may be called heterotrophic nutrition. - Aquatic animals of five organs of sense, viz. fishes up to propoises
(sisumāra) feed on the mother's humour as long as they are young, they eat plants, or both movable and immovable beings (22).84
This scientific observation of the mode of nutrition of aquatic animals is biologically true. The quadrupeds, terrestrial animals with five organs of sense, viz, solidungular animals, biungular animals, multiungular animals and animals having toes with nails, feed on their mother's milk as long as they are young (23),85 the rest as above.
Some of the reptiles moving on the breast, terrestrial animals with five organs of sense, viz. snakes, huge snakes, Asalika and dragons bring forth eggs, some bring forth living young ones, some come out of the egg as males, some as females, some as neuters. As long as they are young, they live on wind (24)86 (The rest as above).
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Terrestrial animal with five organs of sense, walking on their arms, are the followings, viz, iguanas, ichneumons, porcupines, frogs, chameleons, Khoras, Charakoillas, Vissambharas, rats, mpangooses, Pailai yas, cats, Gohās, Cauppäiyas, etc. (The rest as in the last paragraph. (25)87
Aerial animals with five organs of sense : birds with membranous wings, birds, with feathered wings, birds with wings in the shape of a box and birds (which sit on) outspread wings. 88 (All as befure, only tbe following passage is different, As long as they are young, they are hatched by their mother's warmth (The rest as above) (26)89
83. Sutrakytānga, II. 3,21.
84. Ibid. II, 3.22. 85. Ibid. II. 3 23.
86. Ibid, II. 3.24. 87. Sütrakytānga, II, 3,25. vide S.B.E. Vol. XLV, p. 395. 88. Sūtrakytānga, II. 3.25.
89, Ibid.