Scientific Contents in Prakrta Canons

Author(s): N L Jain
Publisher: Parshwanath Vidyapith

Page 437

permanent/variable life general plants - gross and fine, individual bodied plants, 14. Deficient-sensed beings, 15
16. Rational, non-rational. [Q] Seventeen Classes : 1. Gommatasāra Jivakānda 17 ( senses/size ) 1-13 as in P-1, 14-17, 2, 3, 4, 5-sensed beings. ( R ) Eighteen Classes : 1. Gommatasāra Jivakānda 18 ( senses/mind ) 1-16 as in Q-1, 17. Rational, 18. non-rational. [S] Ninteen Classes : 1. Gommatasāra Jivakānda 19 ( senses/mind ) 1-12 as in P-1, 13-14. Supportive and non-supportive
plants, 15-17.2, 3, 4-sensed, 18-19. Rational and non
rational, 5-sensed. [T] Twenty-one Classes : 1. Pañca Sangraha 21 ( completions/ Completioned, non-completioned & structurally non
senses, mind ) completioned classes of beings as in N-2. [U]Twenty-four Classes of Two Types : 1. Jivābhigama Sūtra 24 ( destinities/ Hellish, human, peri-patetic, astral, empyrean, 2, 3, 4,
activities ) 5-sensed beings, 5 immobiles, 10 mansional celestials
(based on dandakas ). 2. Dhavalā 1.1
24 ( completions ) Completioned and non-completioned states of ( 1-10. gross
and fine, 5 1-sensed, 11. individual plants, 12. mobile beings ).
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