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Numbers of Living Beings That Can Simultaneously Be Born And Also Numbers of Living Beings That Can Simultaneously Die3 In Different Classes:
Minimum
Maximum
1. Narakas (Infernal beings) (1-7)
1, 2, or 3 Samkhyāta or Asamkhyāta (626-627)
2. Gods Asurakumāra & others (1-10) 1, 2, or 3 Samkhyāta or Asamkhyāta (658-659) asaṁkhyāta in
Nirantara
3. Earth-bodied, water-bodied, firebodied and air-bodied
every samaya
4. Vanaspati (a) Svasthana, i. e. those living beings of the class of vanaspati that after having been dead are born. again in this very class-nirantara ananta in every samaya (632).
(b) parasthana, i. e. those living beings of the class of vanaspati that belonged to other classes in their previous birth-nirantara asaṁkhyāta in every samaya (632).
About udvartana of the living beings in this class this same thing is to be repeated (638).
5. Dvindriya Minimum 1, 2 or 3 & Maximum samkhyāta and asam
khyāta (633).
6. Trindriya
7. Caturindriya
8. Sammurcchima Pañcendriya Tiryañca
9. Garbhaja Pañcendriya Tiryañca
10. Sammurcchima Manuṣya
11. Garbhaja Manuşya
12. Vāṇamantara
13. Jyotişka
14. From Saudharma to Sahasrara
Minimum 1, 2 or 3 and Maximum samkhyāta or asaṁkhyāta (634)
Minimum 1, 2 or 3 and Maximum samkhyāta (635)
Minimum 1, 2 or 3 and
Maximum samkhyāta or asaṁkhyāta (634)
15. From Anata to
Minimum 1, 2 or 3 and
Anuttara
Maximum samkhyāta (635).
16. Siddha Minimum 1, 2 or 3 and Maximum 108 (636).
5. Katto (Kutah From where) Dvara gives an answer to the question as to from which class a living being can transmigrate to
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3. The sutras referred to in brackets give an account of upapata. For udvartană refer to su. 637-638.
4. Satkhandagama conducts, in its characteristic way, the discussion about the process of transmigration (gati-ägati) of living beings, employing 14 märgaṇādvaras (points-of-investigation), (Book VI pp. 418 ff.).
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