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Twenty-eighth Dietary Section [111 [1810 Pr.] Bhagavan! Of the pudgalas that earth-bodied beings take as food, what proportion do they consume and what proportion do they savor in the future? [1810 U.] Gautama! They consume an innumerable proportion (of the pudgalas taken as food) and savor an infinite proportion. / 1811. Bhanta! Of the pudgalas that earth-bodied beings take as food, do they consume all of them or not all of them? (i.e., do they consume a part of all of them?) [1811 Pr.] Bhagavan! Just as (in Sutra 1804) the statement of the Nairyakas has been said, so should it be said about earth-bodied beings. 1812. Bhanta! Of the pudgalas that earth-bodied beings take as food, in what form do those pudgalas repeatedly transform (in earth-bodied beings)? [1812 U.] Gautama! (Those pudgalas) repeatedly transform in the form of the uneven amount of the touch sense (i.e., in the form of both pleasant and unpleasant). / 1813. And so on, from the Apkayikas to the Vanaspatikayikas. [1813] Discussion—Earth-bodied beings, etc., who have one sense, constantly take food. / They take food in all six directions, unlike the Niryaghatas, and perhaps in three, four, or five directions, unlike the Vyaghatas. In them, there is no predominance of either a solitary auspicious or inauspicious influence. / The pudgalas taken as food by earth-bodied beings transform in them in the form of an uneven amount of the touch sense. This means that they do not transform in a solitary inauspicious form like the Narakas, nor in a solitary auspicious form like the Devas, but repeatedly transform sometimes in a pleasant and sometimes in an unpleasant form. This is the characteristic that distinguishes earth-bodied beings from the Narakas.