Book Title: Jiva Vichar Prakaranam
Author(s): Ratnaprabhvijay
Publisher: Ratnaprabhvijay

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________________ 27 According to Pannavaṇa Sutra - Apkayika Jivas are of two kinds viz (1) Sūkṣma Ap Kayika and (2) Bādara Ap Kāyika. Sukṣma Ap kayila are Paryāpta Sûksma Ap Kāyika and Aparyāpta Sikṣma Ap Kayika. Bādara Ap Kayika Jivas are 1. Dew 2, Ice 3 Hail 4. Hartanu-wafer-drops on green vegetables 5. Pure Water 6 Cold water 7. Hot Water 8 Alkaline Waters 9 Slightly acid Water 10. Acid Waters 11. Salt-water 12. Water with a taste resembling that of wine 13. Milky Water 14. Water having the taste of ghee (clarified butter) 15. Kṣododaka-Water having the taste of sugar cane Juice 16. Rasodaka-Water in Puşkara Vara Dvipa. Appendix. In a drop of unfiltered water, one can easily see under a microsocope as many as 36450 moving living beings. Water belongs to the Ap-Kāyika division of Sthavara Living Bodies. The minute living animalclues that are found in a drop of un-filtered water, are not Ap-Käyika living bodies but they are two-sensed trasa (moving) living beings. By carefully filtering water, these minute two-sensed moving living bodies become greatly reduced and by boiling the water three times consecutively, they disappear, entirely and then, they do not grow and multiply in boiled water, as they do in un-filtered water Boiled water, thus, becomes a-cita or life-less, that is to say, it becomes perfectly free from these minute two-sensed living bodies. Water boiled three times, one after the other at a time, remains a-cita or free from these minute two-sensed living beings for 5 (five) prahars (fifteen (15) hours) in Summer; for four prahars 12 hours.) in Winter and for three (3) prahars (nine (9) hours) in the Rainy Season. Water thus boiled can be used for drinking purposes by Jain Sadhus for the periods mentioned above for each season without transgressing the-limit of any period of time. If a small quantity of Quick Lime is added to that quanlity of boiled water, the water remains prefectly free from these

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