Charpentier, Jarl: The Uttarādhyayanasūtra: the first Mūlasūtra of the Śvetāmbara Jains (Uppsala, 1922)

Commentary: Chap. 36

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stead of vivali in BL 2, J; this word should be = s. uikrti- ’meta-
morphosis which is certainly not unfit for an insect developing
through the different stages of caterpillar, pupa, etc. However,
this explanation is very hypothetical, and I am not fully convinced
that viyacji is the form to be absolutely relied upon here, acchi-
vehayct- probably must be = s. * aksivedhaka-; this as well as acchi-
rodaya- (and possibly also acchila-, which may, however, have
quite another origin) may mean some sorts of insects infesting
the eyes of cattle etc.; mdhaya- is totally unknown to me,
the more so as I am wholly uncertain as to what its Sanskrit
equivalent might be. On vicitte cittapattae (probably vi° is only
an attribute) cp, SBE. XLV, 221 n. 3. uhimjaliyd (which is the
common reading) is absolutely unknown to me; jalakciri could not
well be anything else in Sanskrit, but does not occur in any
dictionary; niyd is unintelligible as it stands now, but I have a
suspicion that it is a senseless corruption of *tiyd or even
cp. tidda- in the Jivaviyara, teddo salabhah pisacasca Desin. 5, 23
and Guz. tida ’a species of grass-hopper’; tantavaydiyd, finally,
would be s. tantravdyddikdh (the reproduction of the word in
SBE. XLV, 221 is, of course, a mistake), tantravayci- meaning
’spider’ (it probably ought to be tankcivdydiyd here, but I have
not hazarded this against all the texts, and there might possibly
exist a form tantravayci- also, though it is not known from else-
where).

171. sammurchima and garbhcivakrdnta here mean the same
categories that are elsewhere called ayonija and yonija. Concerning
the various theories of the origin of the beings cp. Windisch
Buddhas Geburt p. 184 sqq. and especially p. 191. According
to this last passage the beings belong generally to four classes:
jarciyuja ’born from a womb’, dnclayd ’born from an egg’, sve-
daja ’born from moisture’ and udbhijjci, ’born from a germ’. But
according to Avar. I, 6, 1 (p. 5, 1 sq. ed. Schubring) there are no
less than eight different classes of beings according to their
origin, viz,:

1) anclajdh ’born from eggs’ (paksigrhakokilddayah comm.);

2) potaydh ’born without a womb’ (according to the explana-
tion of the lexicographers; these are hastivalgulicarmajalukadayah);

3) jarciyujah ’born from a womb’ (gomahisdjcivikamanusya-
dayah);