________________
24
Vaishali Institute Research Bulletin No. 6
nor carry on muscular activity, like the Kabalāhārini man and higher animals, the two largest resources of metabolic wastes in the animals); he total amount of nitrogenous waste is small and can be eliminated by diffusion as waste through the pores of the leaves, or by diffusion as nitrogen containing salts from the roots into the soil.2
Plant Coordination
The activities of the various parts of a plant are much more autonomous than those of the parts of an animal. The co-ordination between parts that does exist is achieved largely by direct chemical and physical means, 4 since plants have developed no specialized sense organs except that of touch and no nervous system as found in man and higher animals.
Actively growing plants can respond to a stimulusó coming from a given direction by growing more rapidly or bend away from the stimulus. 6
Surā niraya igimdi vinā sesā bhavatthā pakkhevā (v. 182)
(200) "Abhoga-nābhogam savvesim hoi loma ābārol" (v. 184) (204)
Bțhatsamgraham, Sri Candra Sūri. 1. Ibid., VV. 181, 182. 2. Bhagavati Sūtra, 7.3.275-6. 3. “Vanaspatisariramankura-Kišalayaśākhāprašākhă / diviseşaiḥ pratiniyataṁ barddhata iti l”
Tarkarahasyadipikā, p. 157. "pratiniyatavfddhi-svapaprabodhasparsādihetukollāsasarikocāsrayopasarpaņādi višistānekakriya /"
Ibid. m, p. 159. 4. “Tatha Vanaspatiśarirasyāpi Việiştestanabhojalādişekādviśisţvā rasavīryasnigdhatvādi 1”.
Ibid., p. 159, "Yathă manusyasariram Jñänenānugatam, evam vanaspatišariramapi, Yataḥ samiprapunnatasiddhesarakasundakabappulagastyāmalakīkādiprabhftiņām svapavibodhatasatadbhavah I...... tatha mattakāmini sanupūrasukumăracaranatada. nadaśokataroh nallavakusumo
Ibid., p. 159. “Samjñā niyatasamkocavikāsapramukhā api samjñiņam kathamāt amāņam na jñāpayanti yuktibhiḥ I
Lokaprakāśa, 5. 38.
Jain Education International
For Private & Personal Use Only
www.jainelibrary.org
