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Is There An Origin of Life ? thing. In sexual soul of living beings are first come in the wombs and in the due course of time they take birth. They are of three kinds : (1) jarāyuja (born with wrapper containing blood called placenta), (2) andaja (born through eggs) and (3) potaja (born without placenta). Living beings born with placenta containing blood are called jarayuja e.g. the man, the cow, the buffalo, the goat etc. They born with placenta filled with flesh and blood. The child is wrapped in it. Living beings born without placenta on their body are called potaja e.g. the elephant, the hare i.e. rabbit, the mongoose, the rat etc. The snake, the pigeon, the parrot, the hen, the sparrow etc. lay eggs. After a certain kind of incubation of a certain period, a babe comes out of it. This is called andaja garhhaja janma (sexual birth through eggs).
Before we proceed to talk about asexual reproduction let us talk about their birth places. In Jaina terminology they are called yonis. There are innumerable birth places (yonis) of living organisms or beings. But based on same colour, smell, taste and touch, there are 84 hundred thousand types of birth-places (yonis). One type of birth-place include all birth-places of similar colour smell, taste and touch. The number of types of birth-places for earth-bodied beings is seven hundred thousand types. Similarly, water-bodied beings are also born in the birth-places of seven hundred-thousand types. Fire-bodied living beings are also born in the birth-places of seven-hundred-thousand types. Wind-bodied living beings are also born in birth-places of seven-hundred-thousand types. Pratyeka vanaspatikāya (i.e. plants having a single soul in a single body) are born in birth-places of ten-hundred-thousand types. Pratyeka vanaspatikāya means plants etc. that have a single soul in a single body. These plants etc. have different souls in the root, the seed, the leaf, the flower, the fruit, the seed, the stem and the skin and the whole tree also has one soul. Sādhārana vanspatikāya are plants with a body containing souls that take birth, die, live and breathe together. They are born in birth-places of fourteen hundred thousand types. Two-sensed. three-sensed, and four-sensed living beings are born in birth-places of two hundred thousand types each. Celestial, hellish and tiryanca (living beings other than celestial, human and hellish beings) having five-senses are born in birth-places of four hundred thousand types each. Human beings are born in birth-places of fourteen hundred thousand types. Thus in the livingworld, there are eighty-four hundred thousand types of birth-places for all types of living beings. Now we are thinking of asexual birth and asexual living beings, i.e. sammūrechima janma and types of sammurechima living beings.
Sammūrcchima birth is birth without male-female copulation. Sammūrochima birth takes place among one-sensed (five types of non-imoving) MH 431 H1E, 2000 AWIT WMM
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