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Tattvārthasūtra
mixed (miśra) seat-of-birth. In their case, the semen and blood in the mother's womb are lifeless. But, as these are combined with the
ty of the living mother, it is called a mixed yoni. The yoni of the spontaneously generated - sammūrcchana - are of three kinds. Some generate from the yoni with-life (sacitta). Others generate from the yoni without-life (acitta). And yet others generate from mixed (misra) yoni. Those who have common bodies (sādhāraṇa śarīra) generate from the living yoni since they inhabit the common body and are dependent on each other. The yoni of rest of the spontaneously generated - sammūrcchana - beings are of both kinds, without-life (acitta) and mixed (misra). The celestial and infernal beings take their rise from hot (uşņa) as well as cold (sīta) yoni as some of these places are hot and some are cold. Those who possess bodies that emit light take their rise from hot (uşņa) yoni. The rest of the beings have three kinds of seats-of-birth (yoni). Some have cold (śīta), some have hot (uşņa), and some others have mixed (miśra) yoni. The yoni of the celestial, the infernal and the one-sensed beings are covered. Those with incomplete senses (vikalendriya), i.e., from two to four-sensed beings, have exposed (vivrta) yoni. Those who are born of uterus have mixed (miśra) yoni. The 84,00,000 kinds of yoni can be ascertained from the Scripture: “The one-sensed souls with common bodies from eternity - nityanigoda, other one-sensed souls with common bodies – itaranigoda, earth-bodied (prthivi-kāyika), water-bodied (jalakāyika), fire-bodied (agnikāyika) and air-bodied (vāyukāyika) beings are of (originate from) 7,00,000 yoni, each. The yoni of trees and other vegetation are 10,00,000. The yoni of all the beings with incomplete senses (vikalendriya) are 6,00,000. The seats-of-birth (yoni) of celestial beings, infernal beings, and five-sensed animals are 4,00,000, each. The yoni of human beings are 14,00,000.”
It would mean that all beings may take the three kinds of birth in the nine kinds of yoni. The next sūtra is intended to elaborate on uterine birth - garbhajanma.
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