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Bacteria, Algae and Fungi as Found in the Jaina Litcrature
flowers, fruits and seeds of some sadbāraṇasargra vanaspatis including kubana, sevāla, etc. It is not clearly stated bow the asexual reproduction of the plant bacteria takes place,
" Futher, some beings are born in water, grow in water, and come forth as water-body, which is produced hy wind, condensed by wind, it goes upwards, when there is an upward wind, it goes downwards, when there is a downward wind, it goes in a horizontal direction, when there is a borizontal wind; its varieties are hoar-frost, snow, mist, hail-stones, dew and rain.":17
Some beings, born tn water, come forth in water bodies, in the water produced by other water bodies,"918
“Some beings born in water come forth as movable creatures."19
“Some beings come forth as fire-bodies in the manifold animate or inanimate bodies of movable or immovable creatures, ""20
« Some being are born as wind bodies, grow In wind bodies and come forth in wind-bodies."'21
6. Some beings are earth, gravel, sand, stones, rocks, rock salt, fron, copper, tin, lead, silver, gold, and diamond, orpiment, vermilion, realgar, sāsaka, antimony, coral, abhrapatala (mica ), abhravalūkā, hyacinth, natron, anka, crystal, lo hitākşa, emajald, masāragalla, bhujamokaka sapphire, candana, red chalk, hamsagarbha, pulaka, and sulphur, candraprabha, lapis, lazuli, jalakanta add süryakanta,"22 ( a kind of gem).
It is not clearly explained by the. Jainācāryas how does the repro. duction of bacteria-earth quadrates and plant bacteria take place. But it is suggestive from the reference to their birth and death with remarkable speed at the rate of innumerable one-sensed bacteria per instant (or moment) (Samaya), of infinite bacteria in common plant body, e.g. those of aluka (white
17 Satta nānāvihajoniyā...väyasarosiddham...vāyapariggahiyam uddhavãesu uddbabhig
bhavati, aheväesu ahebhāgi bhavati, tiriyavāesu tiriyabhägi bhavati, tamjaha os
himae....suddhodae,' Sutrakytänga 11.3.59. 18 'Sattā udagajoniyāņań....udagajoniesu udagattie viuftamti l', Ibid., 11.3.59. 19 Saita udgajoriyanam.... tasapanattīe viuttamii', Ibid. 20 'Ihegatiyā sattā... agaņikāyattāe viutati l' Ibid 11.3.60. 21 'Ihegativā sattā.... vāyukkāyattñe viuțfamti, 1' Ibid. 22 Thegatiyā sattā ......pudhavittäe şakkarattae....jāva sürakamtaffãe viufțarti 1,'
Ibid., 11.3.61
