Jain Biology

SR No.: 006905
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jethalal S Zaveri, Mahendramuni
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 2008
Total Pages: 152
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 13 MB

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vermin and there is no indication whether these are possessed of two or three or four sense-organs.
PARASITES AND VERMIN
Para. 82 deals with mobile organisms which originate and grow on the animate as well as inanimate bodies of various mobile as well as immobile organisms. They obtain their nourishment from the nutritive fluids (humors) which are produced in these or by these bodies. Similarly, para. 83 deal with the vermin originating and growing in the excretafilthy substances as urine, faces etc., -of the humans as well as subhuman mobile organisms (immobile organisms are excluded). Similarly para. 84 describes the vermin ‘carmakīta', i.e., a skin parasite which originates in the living or dead bodies of mobile as well as immobile organisms. There is no further dissertation about these organisms except the usual statement that they are of thousands of varieties because of the difference in their colour, place etc.
Term, 'anusuya' in para. 82 indicates the parasitic nature of the organisms which are born on the bodies of other organisms. Similarly term, 'duruvasambhava' in para. 83 and ‘khuraduga' in para. 84, indicate vermin infesting excreta and the skin of other organisms respectively.
IMMOBILE ORGANISMS (STHĀVARAS)
The rest of the chapter, i.e., paras. 85 to 100 is devoted to the dissertation of the four remaining immobile organisms, viz., (a) waterbodied; (b) fire-bodied; (c) air-bodied; and (d) earth-bodied organisms.
(a) WATER-BODIED ORGANISMS: Para.85 deals with those waterbodied organisms which are multiformed-yonikas, i.e., which originate and grow in the form of water on or in the bodies of manifold mobile and immobile organisms. Para. 86 deals with those water-bodied organisms which are water yonikas, i.e., which originate in water produced by manifold mobile and immobile organisms. Para. 87 deals with those waterbodied organisms come forth in water-bodies produced by other waterbodies. And finally para. 88 deals with those water-bodied organisms which come forth as mobile organisms in the water produced by water bodies.
JAIN BIOLOGY
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