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colour and other attributes are born in the same Yoni. They are called different Kulas (clans). Thus the total number of Kulas is more than that of yonis. In total there are 84 lac yonis of living beings.
What is a Kulakotis? The family in which a living being takes birth due to his status (gotra), Karma is called kul. Various categories of those kuls are called Kulakotis. There are many kuls in a jati. Not only in human beings, but in every family of birth there are kuls. All the world being have in all 19.75 million billion kuls according to scriptures.
The number of kuls is as under
Human beings
Celestial beings
Hellish beings
1.2 million Kulakotis 2.6 million Kulakotis 2.5 million Kulakotis 1.25 million Kulakotis
1 million Kulakotis 1 million Kulakotis 0.9 million Kulakotis 1.2 million Kulakotis 0.9 million Kulakotis 0.8 million Kulakotis 0.7 million Kulakotis 1.2 million Kulakotis 0.7 million Kulakotis 0.3 million Kulakotis 0.7 million Kulakotis
billion
kulas
2.8 million Kulakotis
Total 19.75 million billion Kulakotis
Out of them 0.9 million Kulakotis of four-sensed living beings have been mentioned here. Just as the hellish beings after completing their span of life in hell, do not immediately take re-birth in hell, the same principle does not apply to animal beings having five senses, four senses and so on. These living beings go on taking birth again and again in foursensed category of living beings after their present life as four-sensed living being. They continue taking birth in the class of four-sensed living being for a countable period which means for a period as long as numerable thousand years.
Five sense aquatic beings Quadrupeds on land (Five-sensed) Five-sensed being moving on heart
Five-sensed moving on arms Five-sensed moving in air Four-sensed living beings Three-sensed living beings Two-sensed living beings
Earth-bodied living beings Water-bodied immobile beings
Fire-bodied beings
Air-bodied beings
Plant-bodied beings
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Five sensed animals
5.35 million
billion
kulas
2.4 million
billion
kulas
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Immobile
beings
5.7 million
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