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अध्याय- २
एक की मिली हुई तीन अर्थात् सचित्ताचित्त, शीतोष्ण और संवृतविवृत [ तत् योनयः ] ये नव जन्मयोनियाँ हैं।
With-life (sacitta), cold (śīta), covered (samuṛta), their opposites - without-life (acitta), hot (uṣṇa), exposed (vivṛta) - and their combination - with-and-without-life (sacittăcitta), cold-and-hot (śītoṣṇa), covered-and-exposed (samvṛta-vivṛta) - are the seats-of-birth (yoni).
That which has consciousness is 'sacitta', that is, with-life. A kind of touch (sparsa) is 'sita' or cold. Like the word 'white', it denotes both the substance (dravya) and the quality (guna). Hence that which is 'cold' denotes the substance too. That which is covered well is 'samurta'. That place which cannot be seen is covered or hidden 'samurta'. 'Setara' means the opposite. What are these? Matter without life, hot and exposed are the opposite. 'Miśra' is that which partakes of both natures mentioned above. Thus, with-and-withoutlife (sacittăcitta), cold-and-hot (śītoṣṇa), covered-and-exposed (samvṛta-vivṛta) are 'miśra'. The word 'ekaśaḥ' in the sutra indicates the proper sequence of the seats-of-birth (yoni). It must be understood as follows-with-life, without-life, cold, hot, covered and exposed. The sequence is not with-life, cold, and so on. Tat', meaning 'that', is intended to indicate the kinds of birth. These are the seats-of-birth for spontaneous generation - sammūrcchana - etc. There are, thus, nine kinds of seats-of-birth (yoni). Is there distinction between the seats-ofbirth (yoni) and birth (janma)? Yes, there is; like between the container and the contained. These seats-of-birth (yoni), such as withlife, are the containers. The contained are the kinds of birth. In the seats-of-birth, that are with-life (sacitta), etc., the soul assimilates matter fit to be transformed into the body, the food, the sense-organs, etc., through the three kinds of birth. The celestial and infernal beings take their origin in the yoni that is without-life (acitta); the special bed - upapāda - is without-life. Those who take birth from the uterus have
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