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## English Translation:
**186**
It is heard in the Harivamsha Purana that there are twenty categories of Shruta Jnana, namely:
1. **Paryaya**
2. **Paryaya Samaas**
3. **Akshara**
4. **Akshara Samaas**
5. **Pada**
6. **Pada Samaas**
7. **Sanghata**
8. **Samaas**
9. **Pratipatti**
10. **Pratipatti Samaas**
11. **Anuyoga**
12. **Anuyoga Samaas**
13. **Prabhrita Prabhrita**
14. **Prabhrita Prabhrita Samaas**
15. **Prabhrita**
16. **Prabhrita Samaas**
17. **Vastu**
18. **Vastu Samaas**
19. **Purva**
20. **Purva Samaas**
These twenty categories are based on the twenty different aspects of Shruta Jnana.
**12-13**
One of the many variations of Shruta Jnana is a single short syllable. This variation involves the accumulation of Skandhas, which are formed from an infinite number of Pudgala Paramanus.
**14**
When this single short syllable variation is divided into infinite parts, one of those parts is called **Paryaya** Shruta Jnana.
**15**
This **Paryaya** Jnana belongs to a subtle, non-perfect, and non-complete-bodied being. It is free from the Shruta Jnana Avarana.
**16**
All beings have a certain amount of knowledge that is never covered by Avaranas. If Avaranas were to cover that knowledge, then there would be a complete absence of knowledge utilization, and without knowledge utilization, there would be no being.
**17**
It is logically proven that the utilization power of a being never perishes. Just as the light of the sun and moon continues to shine even when covered by clouds, similarly, **Paryaya** Jnana continues to shine even when covered by Avaranas.
**18**
When this **Paryaya** Jnana combines with an infinite part of itself, it is called **Paryaya Samaas** Shruta Jnana. This Shruta Jnana is accompanied by Avaranas. It remains hidden as long as the **Paryaya Samaas** Avarana exists. It only becomes manifest when the Avarana is destroyed.
**19**
This **Paryaya Samaas** Jnana is accompanied by infinite, innumerable, and countable parts, as well as infinite, innumerable, and countable losses. It also involves countable, innumerable, and infinite multiplications of **Paryaya** Jnana.
**20-21**
This **Paryaya Samaas** Jnana continues to grow until it reaches the fullness of Akshara Jnana. After that, Akshara Jnana begins, and it grows one syllable at a time until it reaches Pada Jnana. This growing knowledge is called **Akshara Samaas** Jnana. After **Akshara Samaas** comes Pada Jnana.
**22**
Pada is of three types: **Artha Pada**, **Pramana Pada**, and **Madhyama Pada**.
**23**
The first Pada consists of one, two, three, four, five, six, or seven syllables. The second Pada consists of eight syllables.