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As Jain ascetics have taken a life-time vow not to practise violence of any being by thought, word or action they don't use any type of a mono-sense beings which are alive. They don't touch them as they consider it a sin to touch them.
In the strip, for separate classification of all types in the writing suggestion is made through the design.
56. The over all view of bi-sense to Fivefold-sense beings
This strip shows bi-sense, tri-sense, quadruple-sense and fivefold-sense beings.
All bi-sense, tri-sense, quadruple-sense and fivefold-sense beings are collectively known as Vikalendriya. The three types are shown in the first section. Then three circles of Tiryanch Panchendriya are given. These beings move in water, walk on the earth or fly in the air. Deities reside both in the sky and in the subterranean world. The infernal beings live only in the subterranean world and men live on the earth. Thus, through the two strips the general concept of the whole biology as shown in Jain religion is given.
The joint introduction of 22 strips presented in English appendices
The borders of various types and various subjects are placed in this book. It would have been good if the borders were continuous but because of the limited space of the page the expectation can't be fulfilled. In Gujarati appendices it is possible to present 8 borders only. It was not possible to present the borders due to space shortage in the following Hindi appendices. There was another difficulty also that I had no particular subjects left. Which would be consistent with this book or would embellish the same. Hence borders haven't been presented there as no new borders could be made. But in English some care had been taken. The same 20 borders which were presented in the second edition are continued in the third edition, at the same places. But out of 20 strips 17 strips are given in a series and the old strips from 18 to 20 are replaced by three new ones based on Kalpasutra style and then the remaining ones are joined with old three strips.
57 to 73. The Strip of 16 goddesses of learning 24 Yakshas Yakshini according to the Shwetambar Digambar concept.
In Jain religion 24 God-like persons called Tirthankars are born during the specified span of billions of years. When a Tirthankar attains absolute enlightenment, a Yaksha (male deity) and a Yakshini (female deity) from among the deities of the subterranean world are appointed as sentinels for the maintenance and good of the religiousShasan (order established by Tirthankaras) in the public auditorium of Tirthankaras.
The illustrations of 24 Yakshas are presented in strips 57 to 59 and the illustrations of 24 Yakshinis including Chakreshwari are presented in strips 60 to 62 according to Shvetambar tradition.
There are illustrations of 24 Yakshas in strips 63 to 65 and of 24 Yakshinis in three.strips from 66 to 68 according to Digambar tradition.
The 69th strip is presented to show some supplementary deities of Jain religion. First six figures are of supplementary dieties according to Digambar tradition in it.
Then in a thick strip two extra deities of Digambar sect are presented.
Illustrations of six deities of Shvetambar sect presented here are respectively first is Dharanendra who is the serving deity of Parshvanath Bhagawan. The deities assigned to Tirthankaras are always Yakshas and they belong to the Vyantar Nikaya group of deities. That is why, as per rules Yaksha named Parshva is the deity assigned to Parshvanath Bhagawan but as Dharanendra had protected him out of devotion, from the harassment caused by Kamatha, he is given a very significant place and as Dharanendra belongs to the second Bhavanpati Nikaya, he is not a Yaksha,
Yaksha Brahmashanti of the second strip is, like Dharanendra the additional devoted servant of Bhagawan Mahavira. The third Vimaleshwar is the deity assigned to Siddhachakra Bhagawan and belongs to Saudharma Kalpa of Vaimanik Nikaya. The fourth one presented is Maanibhadra Yaksha of impressive (Prabhavaka) Yaksha clan and is famous as the deity assigned to fourth Tapagachchha. He is included in the Vira clan. The fifth one is Bhairavadeva. There are many types of Bhairavas. The sixth one is Kshetrapal. They too are of many types. Here they are concisely introduced. Then are shown two Anavrutta and Sarvahna deities of Digambar sect. They are not introduced here.
To avoid the book becoming voluminous the weapons and vehicles of these deities are not introduced here. In case the weapons are not clearly seen in illustrations of the strips of the Shvetambar Yakshas and Yakshinis, they may be seen in strips 49 to 54.
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Strips 70-71 of Shvetambar sect and strips 72-73 of Digambar sect-all these four strips depict 16 goddesses of learning bearing their names after different branches of learning acquired. Their figures and seats aren't introduced here.
74 to 76. Related to Shree Naminath Bhagawan, the pictorial style of Kalpasutra (Indo-Irani mixed art) All these three strips are drawn on the basis of the school of painting (Indo-Iranian style) which followed the art of painting in the copy of the Jain Kalpasutra as prevailed from the 14-15th century to 18th century. The strips follows the Jesalmery drawings.
Strip no. 74 shows the Chyavan-(to enter the mother's uterus in order to take new birth from the other birth) of Bhagawan Neminath, the fourteen great.dreams of the mother and his father Samudravijay sitting in his residence.
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