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[62] One should know the following types of ordinary plant-bodied beings: Jīvā-jīvābhigama-sūtra, Kanda, Khalluṭa, Kṛmirāśi, Bhadra, Mustāpiṇḍa, Haridrā, Lohārī, Snihu, Stibhu, Aśvakarṇī, Siṃhakarṇī, Sikunḍī, Muṣaṇḍī, and others like these. These have been said to be of two types in brief, namely: sufficient and insufficient. / O Bhagavan! How many bodies have been said to be of these beings? Gautama! Three bodies have been said to be: Audārika, Tejas, and Kārmaṇa. / One should know all these statements like the Bādar earth-bodied beings. The special feature is that the perception of their bodies is from the smallest part of an inch to the largest part of a thousand yojanas and a little more. Their body structures are indefinite, and their duration is from the smallest part of a moment to the largest part of ten thousand years. They move in two directions and come in three directions. Each plant being is innumerable, and the ordinary plant beings are said to be infinite. This is the description of the Bādar plant, and with this, the description of the stationary beings is complete. / Discussion: In a single body, infinite ordinary plant-bodied beings reside, are born together, their bodies are formed together, they take in the pudgalas of prāṇa and apāna together, and they breathe together. The food, breathing, etc., of the ordinary beings residing in one body happens together. / The taking in of food, etc., by one being is the taking in of food, etc., by all beings, and the taking in of food, etc., by all is the taking in of food, etc., by one being. This is the characteristic of the ordinariness of ordinary beings. / Just as a red-hot iron ball in fire becomes entirely red and fiery, so one should know the transformation of infinite beings in a single body in the form of a Nigoda. The body of one, two, or innumerable Nigoda beings is not visible. Only the bodies of infinite Nigodas can be seen. In this matter, the words of the Tīrthankara Deva are the proof. The Bhagavan says that there are innumerable spheres in a Nigoda body the size of the point of a needle, innumerable Nigodas in each sphere, and infinite beings in each Nigoda. / In the present sūtra, many types of ordinary plant-bodied beings have been described. By mentioning the names of some ordinary plants, the Prajñāpanasūtra has been referred to for specific information. There is a detailed explanation of this in that sūtra. / The characteristics of the Bādar plant and the ordinary plant, as mentioned in the Prajñāpanasūtra, are mentioned here because they are relevant and useful. POJITS 1. Gola ya asankhejjā hoti nigoyā asankhyā gole / ekkeko ya nigopro aṇantjīyo muṇeyavyo /