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## Samvayanga Sutra: An Introduction
[174] The Samvayanga Sutra has twenty-one objectives. It contains seventy-two thousand words, countless letters, infinite types of knowledge, infinite synonyms, countless sorrows, and infinite stationary beings. From the perspective of substance, all entities are eternal, but from the perspective of modification, they are impermanent, bound, solidified, and Jain-defined. All these entities are described, explained, exemplified, demonstrated, and illustrated in this Anga. The student of this Anga becomes a knower of the soul and a wise person. Thus, through the description and explanation of the characteristics and causes, the nature of the object is described, explained, exemplified, demonstrated, and illustrated. This is an introduction to the third Sthananga. ||3||
522 - What is the Samvayanga? What is described in it?
The Samvayanga describes the present time, the past time, and both the present and past time. It describes living beings, non-living beings, and both living and non-living beings. It describes the world, the non-world, and both the world and the non-world.
523 - The Samvayanga describes one, two, three, and so on, up to hundreds, thousands, and kotis of objects, as well as the leaves (number of modifications) of the twelve Anga Ganipitaka. It summarizes the knowledge of the Lord, which is beneficial to the beings of the world, in the form of twelve Angas, extending to one hundred places. This Samvayanga describes various types of living and non-living beings, as well as many other specific details, such as the food, breath, leshya, dwelling, number, dimensions, birth, death, immersion, upadhi, pain, classification, use, yoga, senses, passions, various types of living beings, the dimensions, height, and circumference of mountains like Mandara, the specific classifications of mountains like Mandara, the Kulkaras,