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5. Vanaspati-Kāya matahante-Souls in the Vegetable Kingdom-The presence of life in plants, has been proved beyond doubt, by the researches of Dr. J. C. Bose. The plants live, grow, and die, and respond to human and other stimuli applied to them. Jainism has long since credited plants and minerals with the possession of a soul anil consciousness of a very low grade.
The vegetable kingdom is divided into two groups.
The one containing Pratyèka Vanaspati Kāya Jivas con Tate Parrt or Individual-souled Vegetables possessing one soul in one body. They are always Bādara are gross, never Suksuna-ETH fine. These Pratyèka Vanaspatı Kāya Jivas have an individual soul for the root, skin, leaves, wood, flower, fruit, and seed.
The other group contains Sãlháraņa Vanaspati Kaya Jivas Franco regfahr-Common or Group-soulel vegetables, which have innumerable souls in one body. Bulbous roots, sprouts, buds, moss of five varieties, carrots, potatoes, garlic, yam, turmeric, Amritvèla, thorn-apples, sprouts of newly-grown corn, turnips, cauli-flower, mushrooms, aloes, all unripe fruits, all leaves with hidden veins, green ginger, unripe fruits of tamarinds and mangoes, onions, varieties of thorn trees, Guggula; leaves of hemp, radish, and all those vegetables whose veins, knots, ane! joints are hidden; which, on division, can be divided equally, which are without fibres and which grow even after they are crushed-are a few examples of Sádháraņa Vanaspati Kaya Jivas. They are also called Ananta ( Tia) Kāya Jivas.
Besides the above-named Sádhāraņa Vanaspati Kāya Jivas, there are a number of other unknown Sādhāraņa Vanaspati Kāya Jivas. By destroying a portion of it, innumerable small animaoules are likely to suffer. These Sādhāraņa Vanaspati Kāya Vegetables shoukl not be used as food, because. by the use of such substances, not two or four or eyen more, but innumerable small animalcules are killed; they should, therefore, be abandoned for ever.
By the operation of the Common Furor-Sadhāraṇa bodymaking Karma,-the Nigora bodies, as they are also called, become
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