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Uttarajjhayana 211.22.p1.112

Uttarajjhayaṇa 211.22.p1.112

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211.22.p1.112

suhumā savvalogammi | logadese ya bāyarā /
itto kālavibhāgaṃ tu | tesiṃ vucchaṃ cauvvihaṃ ||112||

Meteors, and lightning, and many other kinds besides.
The subtile Fire Lives are but of one kind, as there is no variety. (111)
The subtile species, &c. (see verses 79-84. Substitute Fire Lives for Earth Lives. In verses 114 f., corresponding to verses 81, 89, and 103, read: 'the longest duration of the life of Fire Lives is three days,' &c.; the rest as above). (112-117)
β. The Wind Lives are of two kinds, &c. (as in verse 109). (118)
The gross and fully developed ones are of five kinds: squalls, whirlwinds, thick winds, high winds, low winds; (119)
And the Samvartaka wind, &c.; thus they are of many kinds.
The subtile Wind Lives are but of one kind, as there is no variety. (120)
The subtile species, &c. (as above 79-84. Substitute Wind Lives for Earth Lives. In verse 123, corresponding to 114, read: 'the longest duration of the life of Wind Lives is three thousand years;' the rest as above). (121-126)
γ. Movable beings with organic bodies (i.e. animals) are of four kinds: i. those possessing two organs of sense, ii. those with three organs, iii. those with four organs, iv. those with five organs. (127)
i. Beings with two organs of sense are of two kinds: subtile and gross ones. Both are either fully developed or undeveloped. Learn from me their subdivision. (128)
Worms, Sômaṅgala, Alasa, Mâivâhaya, Vâsîmuha, shells, conches, Saṅkhânaga; (i 29)
Pallôya, Anullaya, cowries, leeches, Gâlaga, and Kandana. (130)

Hermann Jacobi 1895, Uttarâdhyayana Sûtra (Gaina Sûtras II, SBE 45)

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