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## Second Understanding: Scarcity [143]
**Scarcity** is explained in five ways in this sutra.
**(1)** **General Scarcity:** Human women are the least numerous, with their number being a mere koti-koti (a specific large number). Animal women are countless times more numerous, as each island and ocean teems with them, and islands and oceans are countless. Divine women are countless times more numerous than animal women, as the Bhavanavasi, Vyantara, Jyotishka, and Saudharma-Ishana goddesses each occupy countless regions of space. This is the first type of scarcity.
**(2)** **Scarcity among Animal Women:** The least numerous are the flying animal women. Land-dwelling animal women are countless times more numerous, as they are naturally more abundant than flying animals. Water-dwelling animal women are countless times more numerous, as the salt ocean, the Kalod ocean, and the Swayambhuraman ocean are teeming with fish, and the Swayambhuraman ocean is vast beyond all other islands and oceans.
**(3)** **Scarcity among Human Women:** The least numerous are the human women of the Akarmabhoomi in the inner islands, as the region is small. The women of Devakuru and Uttar Kuru are countless times more numerous, as the region is countless times larger. The women of both regions are equal in number, as their regions are of equal size. The women of the Harivarsha and Ramyakavarsha Akarmabhoomi are countless times more numerous, as the region is much larger than Devakuru and Uttar Kuru. The women of both regions are equal in number, as their regions are of equal size. The women of the Haimavat and Hairanyavat Akarmabhoomi are countless times more numerous, as their abundance is due to their low status, even though the region is small. The women of both regions are equal in number, as their regions are of equal size. The women of the Bharat and Airavat Karmabhoomi are equal in number...