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अध्याय-२
powers, sometimes to ascertain the true nature of minute objects and sometimes to safeguard self-control. The word 'āhāraka’is repetition of the projectable body mentioned previously (see sūtra 2-36). The moment the ascetic originates the projectable body, he comes down to the sixth spiritual stage. Hence it is mentioned that it originates only in the saint of the sixth stage. 'Eva'- only - is used to determine what is intended. It originates only in the ascetic of the sixth stage and not in others. This is how it must be understood. And it should not be understood that the ascetic of the sixth stage has the projectable body only and not the gross body, etc.
Thus, the mundane beings possess bodies as indicated. Now, do the three genders obtain in all the four conditions of existence, or is there any rule regarding this? Yes, there is.
नारकसम्मछिनो नपुंसकानि ॥५०॥ [ नारक सम्मछिनो ] नारकी और सम्मूर्च्छन जन्म वाले [ नपुंसकानि ] नपुंसक होते हैं।
The infernal-beings (nārakī) and the spontaneouslygenerated (sammārcchina) are neuter-sex (napumsaka).
The infernal regions are described later. Those who are born in the infernal regions are infernal-beings (nārakī). The beings who are born by spontaneous generation are the spontaneously-generated (sammārcchina). The conduct-deluding karmas have two subdivisions - passions (kaşāya) and quasi-passions (nokasāya). Owing to the rise of the quasi-passion (nokaṣāya) called the neuter sex sign - napumsakaveda, and of the inauspicious (aśubha) name-karma (nāmakarma), these - the nārakī and the sammürcchina - are born as
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