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Properties, Structure & Functions of Plant in Jaina Agamic Works
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another part, such as, stem or root1, etc. The insectivorous plantsa, although without an organized digestive system, do secrete digestive enzymess similar to those secreted by animals, as suggested by the statement "they deprive of life the bodies of manifold mnoyable and immovable beings; the destroyed bodies of movable and immovable beings; the destroyed bodies which have been consumed before, or absorbed by the rind, (are) digested and assimilated by them).”4
Plants accumulate the reserves of organic materials for use during those time when photosynthesis is impossible, at night or over the winter 5 An embryo plant cannot make its own food until the seed sprouted and the embryo has developed a functional root, leaf6 and stem system.
1. "Tesim pudhavijoniyāņam rukkhānam sarirānānāvaņņā nānā
gamdhā pānārasā nānāphāsā nānasamthānasamthiya nânāvihasarirapuggalaviuvvită... ... bhavamtetti”
Sūtrakặtānga II, 3.43. 2. “Te jivā tesim rukkhajoniyāņaṁ rukkhānam siņehamāhāremti .....
pudhavisariram, etc... ... tesim rukkhajoņiyāṇam mūlāņam kamdāņam tayāņam...... sālāņam pavālāņam jāva biyāṇam sarirā nânāvaņņā nänāgandhi...... bhavamti/", Ibid., II. 3.46. Nānāvihānamtiasathāvarāņam pāņāņam sariram acittam kuvvamti parividdharthaí tam sariram... ... vipariņayam saruviyakadam samtams, Ibid., II. 3.43.
Ibid. 5. Ibid., S. B. E. XLV, Book II. Lecture 3, Sutra 2, p. 389.
Jacobi. Bhagavati Sūtra, 7.3.275-6. “Śravaņādicaturmāsyam prāvýdvarṣāṣu bhūruhaḥ / Sarvato bahulāhāra apām bāhulyataḥ smộtaḥ //1091/ Tataḥ śaradi hemante kramadalpabhojiņah / Yavadvasante alpāhāra grişme alyantamitāşanaḥ //
Lokaprakāśa I, 5, 109-10. 7. (1) "Joviya müle jivo soviya patte padhamayametti / (2) Savvo vi kisalao khalu uggamamāņo anamtão bhaņio /
Etaccārthatah prajnapanavrttau” Acārāngavpttavapi tathaiva // Yaduktam. “Yaśca mūlatayā jivaḥ pariņamate sa eva prathomapatratayā api tti/
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