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belonging to water, land, and air, hell-inhabitants, men, and gods are all five-sensed.
The three powers--mind, speech, body, the five senses, term of life, and breathing are called the ten vitalities (prāņa). In all jīvas the body, term of life, breathing, and senses are present.172 The two-to-four sensed and the irrational have speech, and the fully rational have mind.
The gods and hell-inhabitants have spontaneous origin, but the ones with uterine birth are born from foetus with placenta, without placenta, and from eggs. The others are produced by coagulation. Souls arising from coagulation and hell-inhabitantsevil souls--are neuters; the gods are male and female; others are all three.
All jivas are of two kinds with reference to being grasped from the practical point of view (vyavahārya), or not being grasped from the practical point of view. The fine many-bodied souls (nigoda) are the latter. The others are grasped by the senses.
There are nine divisions of birth-nuclei (yoni) of creatures: with living matter, covered, and cold; the opposites of these; and combinations 173 divided by other sub-divisions. Of earth-, water-, fire-, and air-jīvas, there are seven lacs (of yonis) each; ten lacs of one-bodied (plants) and fourteen lacs of many-bodied (plants). There are six lacs of the two-to-four sensed (inclusive) jiyas and fourteen lacs of humans; four each of hell-inhabitants, animals, and gods. So there are eighty-four lacs of birth-nuclei, perceived by perfect knowledge, of all creatures.
The one-sensed, both fine and gross; the five-sensed, both rational and irrational; and the two-to-four sensed are both capable of development (paryāpta) and not
172 238. This statement that indriyāni are present in all jivas is misleading in its wording. It sounds as if all the senses were present in all jivas, whereas it really means that some sense is present in all jivas. See I, n. 32.
178 242. The 'combinations' are of the opposite pairs. For examples of different kinds of yonis, see Jaini's Tattvārthasūtra 2.32.
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