A History of the Canonical Literature of the Jainas c8.274
A History of the Canonical Literature of the Jainas c8.274
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c8.274
*Āsīvisabhāvaṇa*—It is a work which more or less deals with venoms. As stated by Yaśodeva Sūri in his com. (p. 69ᵃ) on *Pakkhiyasutta*, this work says that there are two types of living beings having poison in their jaws. The first type of them is so by their very birth. They include scorpions, frogs, serpents and human beings. The poison of a scorpion can at best pervade a body equal to that of half of Bharata *kṣetra*; that of a frog, double this body; that of a serpent, a body equal to Jambūdvīpa; and that of a human being, a body equal to the *samaya-kṣetra* (i. e. *manuṣyaloka*).