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is without remnant while the other one is partly absorbed and transformed into body and its sustaining energy. The rest is excreted. The transformation of intake in different beings depends on the senses they might have. These beings have intakes through their sense-organs also which are developed from their primary intakes.O
There is no mention of specific foods for higher beings but it is mentioned for plants that they take their intake in the form of essences ( salts, water, air, calories, etc. ) from earth, water, air and other types of bodies. Different terms used in canons in this connection have high similarity with current botanical concepts in a qualitative way. Summary of various disquisition doors regarding foods is talulated in Table 9 which gives many more self-explanatory details too.
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