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Tattvārthasūtra
endowed with it are ‘amanaska’. Thus the living beings are divided into two classes, those with the mind and those without the mind. Those endowed with the mind are mentioned first as they are worthy. How are they worthy? Being endowed with the power of discrimination between the good and the bad, they are worthy. The transmigrating souls are classified in another way.
संसारिणस्त्रसस्थावराः ॥१२॥
[ संसारिणः ] संसारी जीव [स] त्रस और [ स्थावराः ] स्थावर के भेद से दो प्रकार के हैं।
The transmigrating souls are of two kinds, the trasa and the sthāvara.
The mundane souls are of two kinds, the trasa and the sthāvara. Those who are subject to the 'trasa' name-karma (namakarma) are trasa, and those who are governed by the 'sthāvara' name-karma are sthāvara. Is it correct to say that those who move are trasa and those who are stationary are sthāvara? No, such an interpretation contradicts the Scripture. From the two-sensed beings up to the Omniscient-without-activity (ayogakevalī) are designated 'trasa' in the Scripture. The distinction is not based on movability or immovability, but on fruition of 'trasa'and 'sthāvara'name-karma. As the word 'trasa' is of fewer letters than the word ‘sthāvara’and as the trasa beings are worthier, 'trasa' is mentioned first. These are worthier as all varieties of cognition (upayoga) are possible in them. There is not much to be said about the one-sensed, sthāvara beings. So these are explained first, violating the order.
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