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Jaina Gem Dictionary.
1. Aquatic (fishes). 2. Terrestrial (beasts).
3. Aerial (bird ). These 3 have minds or not; and then, the paryāptaka,
etc., 3 kinds of each, give 3x2x3=18 kinds. 16 of those of five-sensed beings of uterine birth
(garbhaja). 12 of karma blueini (q. v.) Aquatic, Terrestrial
and Aerial; each of these rational and irrational :-these 6 kinds being paryâpta or szirvrittya paryâpta.
4 of bhoga bhůmi (q.v.) Terrestrial and
Aerial, being paryâpta and nirurittyaparyâpta. 9 Kinds are as follows: 8 Of Garbhaja or uterine birth. Those born in Arya
khanda, Mlechchlia khanda, Bhoga bhumi, Kubhoga bhumi or antardvipaja, each one being paryâpta or nirvșittyaparyâpta, we have
8 kinds, 1 Of Saumurchchhana or beings spontaneously
generated in the generative organs and arm-pits of women and dying as soon as they are born 18 times in one pulse-beat. They are too small to be visible to the naked eye and are always
labdhiaparyâptaka. Jîvavipâkî (stafamonth-Soul-maturing Karma which
affects the soul mainly.
