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80] [Jivajovaabhigamsutra Bhagavan! Is there any powerful and influential deva who can take external pudgals and pierce and then mend the body of a child? Yes, Gautama! He is capable of doing so. He mends it so skillfully that one cannot see or know the joint. Such a subtle joint it is. / Bhagavan! Is there any powerful deva (without taking external pudgals) who can make a child bigger or smaller without piercing it? Gautama! That is not possible. Thus, the four bhangs should be said. In the first and second bhangs, there is no taking of external pudgals, and in the first bhang, there is also no piercing of the child's body. In the second bhang, there is piercing. In the third bhang, there is no taking of external pudgals and no piercing of the child's body. / In the fourth bhang, there is both taking of external pudgals and piercing of the child's body in the past. One cannot know or see this Siddhi of making it smaller or bigger. / This method of shortening and lengthening is very subtle. Jyotishka Chandra-Suryaadhikār 191. Asthi Nām Bhante! Are the star-like devas who are below the realm of the moon and sun, inferior or equal (in terms of dhuthi, vaibhava, leshya, etc.)? Are the star-like devas who are in the same category as the moon and sun, inferior or equal to the moon and sun in terms of dhuthi, etc.? And