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[Twenty-eighth Food-Verse] [105 [1798-2 U.] Gautama! Do they also consume one-quality black pudgalas, or even consume infinite-quality black pudgalas? / In the same way (from blood-color to) one should know the aforementioned question and answer regarding white-color. 1766. And in the same way, regarding smell and taste, one should say "palāpaka" as before. 1800. [1] Those beings who consume pudgalas that are touch-based, they do not consume one-touch pudgalas, nor two or three touch pudgalas, but they consume four-touch pudgalas up to eight-touch pudgalas. In terms of the path of the vidhāna (distinction), they also consume rough pudgalas up to coarse pudgalas. / [2] Those who consume rough touch pudgalas, do they consume one-quality rough pudgalas, or even consume infinite-quality rough pudgalas? Gotama! Do they consume one-quality rough pudgalas, or even consume infinite-quality rough pudgalas? In the same way, having said eight touch pudgalas up to infinite-quality coarse pudgalas, they consume them. / [1800-2 Pr.] Bhagavan! Do they who consume rough touch pudgalas, consume one-quality rough pudgalas, or even consume infinite-quality rough pudgalas? [1800-2 U.] Gautama! They consume one-quality rough pudgalas, or even consume infinite-quality rough pudgalas. In the same way, in order, one should say "they consume infinite-quality coarse pudgalas" up to this point. / [3] Bhagavan! Do they who consume infinite-quality coarse pudgalas, consume touched pudgalas or untouched pudgalas? [1800-3 U.] Gautama! They consume touched pudgalas, not untouched pudgalas. / (As said in Su. 877-15-23) Just as it is said in the bhāṣā-uddeśaka, in the same way, they consume from all six directions according to the rule. 1801. Due to the cause of the proṣaṇṇa, the color, time, blue, smell, bad smell, taste, bitter-sour, touch, rough-heavy-soft-coarse, those pudgalas that are transformed, ripened, matured, and broken down by those qualities of color, smell, and touch, and those pudgalas that are produced, are very subtle, dense, and are consumed by the beings due to their accumulation.