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[Twenty-eighth Food Chapter] [113] A countless number of parts of the food taken by the two-sensed beings, even though they are not smelled, not touched, and not tasted, go to destruction. [1817] O Bhagavan! Do the two-sensed beings consume all the Jain pudgalas as food, or do they not consume all of them? (That is, do they consume only a part of them?) [1817] Gautama! The food of the two-sensed beings is said to be of two types, namely, Lomahar and Prakshepahar. They consume all the Jain pudgalas that they take as Lomahar, and they consume only a countless part of the Jain pudgalas that they take as Prakshepahar. Many thousands of their parts go to destruction in this way, and they are neither touched internally or externally, nor are they tasted. [1818] O Bhagavan! Of these aforementioned Prakshepahar pudgalas, which are the ones that are not tasted and not touched, which are less, more, equal, or special? [1818] Gautama! The pudgalas that are not tasted are the least, and the pudgalas that are not touched are countless times more than them. [1819] O Bhagavan! In what forms do the Jain pudgalas that the two-sensed beings consume as food, repeatedly transform? [1819] Gautama! Those pudgalas repeatedly transform into the forms of the tongue sense and the touch sense. [1820] And so on, up to the four-sensed beings. It is noteworthy that many thousands of parts of the pudgalas taken as Prakshepahar by these (three-sensed, four-sensed) beings go to destruction without being smelled, touched, or tasted. [1821] O Bhagavan! Of these pudgalas that are not smelled, not tasted, and not touched, which are less, more, equal, or special? [1821] 1. The symbol '4' indicates the question 'Less, more, equal, or special?'