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## First Understanding: The Nature and Types of Ajiva [17]
**Rasa-based:** There are 5 colors, 2 smells, 8 touches, and 5 forms in the five tastes (sweet, bitter, pungent, sour, and astringent). These 20 elements can be combined in 20^4 * 5 = 100 ways, resulting in 100 rasa-based variations.
**Guru-Laghu-Sparsha-based:** There are 5 colors, 2 smells, 5 tastes, 6 touches (excluding guru and laghu), and 5 forms in the guru and laghu touches. These 23 elements can be combined in 23^4 * 2 = 46 ways, resulting in 46 guru-laghu-sparsha-based variations. The same applies to the cold and hot touches, resulting in another 46 variations. The difference is that we should consider only six touches out of the eight, excluding cold and hot.
**Snigdha, Rooksha, Komala, and Kathira-based:** Similarly, considering six touches each in snigdha, ruksha, komala, and kathira, we get 23 variations each. This results in 23^4 * 4 = 92 variations.
**Total Sparsha-based variations:** 46 + 46 + 92 = 184
**Sansthana-based:** There are 5 colors, 2 smells, 5 tastes, and 9 touches in the five forms (circle, triangle, square, rectangle, and oval). These 20 elements can be combined in 20^4 * 5 = 100 ways, resulting in 100 sansthana-based variations.
**Total Ajiva variations:** 100 (varna-based) + 46 (gandha-based) + 100 (rasa-based) + 184 (sparsha-based) + 100 (sansthana-based) = 530
**Arupa Ajiva:** We have previously mentioned 10 variations of arupa ajiva, including dharma-astikaya, etc., and their skandha, desha, pradesha, etc. There are also 20 variations based on the dravya, kshetra, and kala guna of dharma-astikaya, adharma-astikaya, prakasha-astikaya, and kala. Therefore, there are 10 + 20 = 30 variations of arupa ajiva.
**Total Ajiva variations:** 530 (rupa ajiva) + 30 (arupa ajiva) = 560
The duration of the result of varna, etc., is from the shortest, one moment, to the longest, countless moments.
This completes the explanation of Ajiva-abhigma.
**The Nature and Types of Jiva-abhigma**
**6. What is Jiva-abhigma?**
Jiva-abhigma is of two types: Samsara-samavrannaka-jiva-abhigma and Asamsara-samavrannaka-jiva-abhigma.
**7. What is Asamsara-samavrannaka-jiva-abhigma?**
Asamsara-samavrannaka-jiva-abhigma is of two types: ...