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[272] The [Prajñāpanā Sūtra] states that villages and all oceans are a thousand yojanas deep. Therefore, since the dwelling place of fish and other [tiryañcaya] beings is below nine hundred yojanas, they are abundant in number. For this reason, they are called "numerous." Their territory is also numerous. Compared to the lower realm, [tiryañcaya] beings are more numerous in the [tiryak] realm. (3) Considering the scarcity and abundance of the human realm, humans are the fewest in the three realms (trilokasparsi), because those who are born in the villages of the lower realm and who perform the [maranantika] liberation, some of them, due to their liberation, extend their self-regions beyond the three realms. Some, having attained the [vaikriya] or [ahāraka] liberation, extend their self-regions far up and down through great effort. A few humans who attain the [kevali] liberation touch all three realms. For this reason, humans are the fewest in the three realms. Compared to them, humans who touch the two realms of the upper realm and the [tiryak] realm are innumerable. When [vaimānika] gods or beings with other bodies are born as humans in the [tiryak] realm from the upper realm, they touch the aforementioned two realms. In addition, when [vidyadhara] and others travel on Mount Meru and other places, humans are born in their semen, blood, and other [pudgala] particles, and when they return with their blood and other [pudgala] particles, they touch the aforementioned two realms. They are numerous, therefore they are innumerable. Compared to them, humans who touch the two realms of the lower realm and the [tiryak] realm are numerous, because there is naturally a great deal of harmony among humans in the villages of the lower realm. Therefore, those who are born as humans in the villages of the lower realm from the [tiryak] realm or from other bodies, or those who are born as humans in the [tiryak] realm from the villages of the lower realm or from any other place in the lower realm, touch the aforementioned two realms. Therefore, they are called numerous. Compared to them, humans in the lower realm are more numerous, because there is a great deal of movement of [vidyadhara] and [cāranamuni] who play and do other things in the forests of [saumanasa] and others, and humans are born in their blood and other [pudgala] particles. Compared to them, humans in the lower realm are more numerous, because it is their natural dwelling place, so abundance is natural. Compared to them, humans in the [tiryak] realm are more numerous, because the territory of the [tiryak] realm is more numerous, and it is their dwelling place, so abundance is possible. Compared to the territory of human women, the fewest human women are those who touch all three realms, because when they are born in the lower realm from the upper realm and perform the [maranantika] liberation, they extend their self-regions beyond the three realms, or when they perform the [vaikriya] or [kevali] liberation, they touch all three realms, and such human women are very few, therefore they are said to be the fewest in the three realms. Compared to them, women who touch the two realms of the upper realm and the [tiryak] realm are numerous. When [vaimānika] gods or beings with other bodies are born as human women in the [tiryak] realm from the upper realm, and when human women in the [tiryak] realm perform the [maranantika] liberation when they are born in the upper realm, they extend their self-regions far up, but those who have not yet passed away, they touch the aforementioned two realms, and both types of women are very numerous.