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________________ Second Chapter SUTRA 13 पृथिव्यप्तेजोवायुवनस्पतयः स्थावराः ।।१३॥ Prithivyaptojo vayu vanaspatayah sthavarah. Immobile (one sensed souls) (are of 5 kinds:) (1) geeft Prithvi, earth-bodied; (2) Apwater bodied, (3) fts teja, fire bodied; (4) ary Vayu, air-bodied, and (5) pala Vanaspati, Vegetable-bodied. Each of these is considered in 3 aspects, e:g.. the earth souls :Take earth-bodied - (2) grant afifi Prithm-kayıka, as embedied in matter; as earth bodied soul. (3) getafora Prithm-kaya, as material body, as, the body without soul. It is dead carth after the soul has left it. (4) qraftsfa Prithvi-zva, as an earth-soul, as the soul which is to be embodied in the earth, but is now in fauena vigrahagatı or in transition from one existance to another similarly apania, apakaya and apaka yika, etc The maximum size of the body of an earth, water, fire and airsoul is an innumberble part of a cubic finger. Therefore it is quite inivisble. We see it only in a mass Take a glass of fresh water. Every drop of it is a mass of many water-bodied souls. The many minute animalculae seem under the microscope are foreign or other souls. They are not water bodied souls Water-bodied souls have water and that alone the matter of their bodies. Similarly the earth etc, souls As to the forms, the bodies of earth, water, fire and air souls, they are respectively oval like a pea of masoora (seed), round like a drop of water, long cylindrical with pointed tips like a collection of needless. and oblong like a flog. (J.K. 22). SUTRA 14 द्वीन्द्रियादयस्त्रसाः Dvindriyadatastrasah (Mobile or many suited souls:) With 2 senses, etc., 1.e.
SR No.011035
Book TitleTattvartha Sutram
Original Sutra AuthorN/A
AuthorJ L Jaini
PublisherChampat Rai Jain
Publication Year1956
Total Pages187
LanguageEnglish
ClassificationBook_English, Tattvartha Sutra, Tattvartha Sutra, & Tattvarth
File Size6 MB
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