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## First Proclamation Chapter ] [ 67 They reside in their respective states of being, but due to being mixed with specific karma-like adhesive substances, these beings also appear to be one-bodied, uniform, and one-bodied in form. Second example - Just as a sesame seed cake is formed by many sesame seeds coming together (by mixing with adhesive substances like jaggery, etc.), the sesame seeds in that sesame seed cake remain separate, each in its own state of being, yet the sesame seed cake appears uniform. Similarly, even though the body aggregates of each embodied being are separate, they appear uniform! Characteristics of plants with infinite beings - (1) The root, tuber, stem, skin, branch, coral, flower, fruit, or seed that breaks, whose broken part appears circular, should be considered to have infinite beings. (2) The root, tuber, stem, and branch whose bark is thicker than the wood, i.e., the central pith, should be considered to have infinite beings. (3) The root, tuber, stem, skin, branch, leaf, and flower, etc., whose broken part is perfectly circular when broken, should be considered to have infinite beings. (4) The root, tuber, stem, bark, branch, leaf, and flower, etc., whose broken part or joint is filled with dust, or whose leaf, etc., when broken, does not show a circular break and the broken (joint) place is not filled with dust, but the broken place has a soil-like separation, i.e., it breaks like the cross-section of a field furrow that has been intensely heated by the sun's rays, then it should be considered to have infinite beings. (5) The leaf with or without milk (without milk) whose veins are not visible, or whose joint (joining the two parts of the leaf) is not visible at all, should also be considered to have infinite beings. (6) Flowers are of two types: aquatic and terrestrial. Both of these are also of two types each - stalked (like Atimuka, etc.) and stalkless (like paddy flowers, etc.). Among these flowers, some have a countable number of beings, some have an uncountable number of beings, and some have infinite beings. They should be known according to the Agamas. It is special that the stalkless flowers like paddy, etc., have been called by the Tirthankaras and Ganadharas as having a countable number of beings; but the flowers of the Snihupushpa, i.e., the fruit of the Thohar or other fruits like the Thohar, should also be considered to have infinite beings. (7) The Padmini tuber, Utpalini tuber, Antar tuber (a special tuber of aquatic plants) and the Jhillika plant, all these have infinite beings. It is special that there is one being in the Vis (Bhis) and Mrinal of the Padmini tuber, etc. (8) Saffaka, Sajjaya, Uvvehalia, Kahan, and Kanduka (due to regional differences) are infinite-bodied. (9) All buds are infinite-bodied when they sprout. Every plant body, whether it is a multi-bodied or a simple one, when it reaches the bud stage, has been called infinite-bodied by the Tirthankaras and Ganadharas. But the same bud, as it grows, later takes the form of a leaf, then it becomes a simple body or an infinite body or a multi-bodied being. Characteristics of plants with multi-bodied beings - (1) The root, tuber, stem, skin, branch, coral, leaf, flower, or fruit or seed, when broken, whose broken (broken) part has a diamond 1. Prajnapanasutra, Malaya. Vritti, Patranka 33