Book Title: Treatise on Jainism
Author(s): Jayantibhai S Sanghvi
Publisher: S J Sanghvi

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________________ -46 A Treatise on Jainism are not obstructed by, and they do not obstruct others. They die their own death. Some of the above 7 kinds are born with the capacity to develop, others die before acquiring the capacity to develop. Each one of the seven may therefore be developable or non-developable. Thus there may be said to be 14 soul-classes, in all. A further distinction can be considered. Some mundane souls can voluntarily change their place in space; others cannot. Observation will show that all one-sensed souls are immobile and that all the other souls are mobile. There are 406 Soul-classes of Mundane Souls as under : (1) Sub-human, one to four-ser sed........81 (One-sensed in Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Vegetable, Trunk, Creeper, Plant, Tree, Root.) (2) Sub-human, five-sensed .....................42 (In Work Reg on, Highest, Middle, Lowest Enjoyment Regions.) (3) Human, five-sensed ........................... 13 (In Work-Region Arya Khanda and Mlichha Khanda. In Highest, Middle, Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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