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The Doctrine of the Jainas, Described after the Old Sources c7.s2.9

The Doctrine of the Jainas, Described after the Old Sources c7.s2.9

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c7.s2.9

I. Beings in the Saṃsāra are either immovable or movable (=2). II.: female, male and neuter beings (=3). III. Hell-beings (H), animals (A), human beings (M), and gods (G). the latter in 2 *vemaṇiya-uddesa* (=4). IV. Beings with one up to five senses (=5). V. Earth-, water-, fire-, wind-beings, plants, and animals (=6). VI. H(without sexual differences) and AMG both female and male (=7). VII. HAMG in the first and the last moments of their existence as such (=8). VIII. Beings with one sense (=5) and those with two up to five senses (=4). IX. Beings with one up to five senses as in VII (=10).—The following divisons are no longer confined to the Saṃsāra, but include the Siddhas. I’. Beings in the Saṃsāra and above it having organs of sense, body, activity (joga), etc. etc., and such having not (=2). II’. Beings capable of believing limited (paritta), developed, fine, having the inner sense, capable of salvation, and movable, or either representing the opposite or being subjected to a third condition (=3). III’. Activity, sex. belief, self-control in beings (=4). IV’. HAMG plus Siddhas (=5), or the same five having and not having the 4 passions. V’. Beings having and not having the five senses or the five bodies (=6). VI’. Four elementary beings, plants, movable beings (=AHG) and Siddhas (=7), or beings having and not having the lesa (=6+1). VII’. Beings in possession of the five kinds of right and the three kinds of wrong cognition (=8). Beings as in VI plus the Siddhas (=8). VIII’. A 1-4, (A5:) HAMG plus the Siddhas (=9). The same as in VII (=9). IX’. Beings as in VIII plus the Siddhas (=10). Beings as in VII plus the Siddhas of the two kinds (=10).