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four-sensed; the five-sensed, irrational and rational; all these, being developable and non-developable, make the fourtven classes. (of Jîva ).
This gatha enumerates the fourteen soul-classes, which may be shown thus:
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1. Fine One-sensed 2. Gross
Each of these is either, 3. Two-sensed
1. Developable to 4. Three-sensed 5. Four-sensed
i 2. Non-developable 6. Irrational Five-sensed 7. Rational „ „ J
Paryāpta (Terre Developable) Jivas are those who, within one antar-muharta i. e. within 48 minutes, gain the capability of fully developing the essential characteristics of the body, into which they are going to incarnate. While, those that do not gain such a capacity, are called Aparyāpta (argen-Nondevelopable.)
[ Antar-muharta is a period of time, which at its minimum consists of nine Samayas and above and at its maximum, of forty-eight minutes, minus one samaya. All the other periods, between these minimum and maximum, are called Antarmuharta ]
KINDS AND VARIETIES OF SOULS. Samsāri souls or Samsāri Jivātmās sent stratehi are of two kinds; viz 1. Sthāvara Futer Immobile Souls, and 2. Trasa Ta Mobile Souls, according to the bodies they inhabit.
Sthāvara FETETT Jivas are those which are devoid of locomotion and have only one organ of sense, viz that of Touch or Tactile Perception (era Sparsana.). Earth, water, fire, air, and the vegetable kingdom, are known as Jivas belonging to the Sthāvara class. Symptonis of life in these Saprāna Sthāvara (mureyrar) or living fixtures, consist among other phenoniena, in RESPONSIVE-NESS, as manifested by the series of changes in the
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