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## 24] [Prajñāpanasūtra Ultimate One Declared, and 18. Many Ultimate - Many Declared / Trika-Combined-8 Categories 16. One Ultimate, One Non-Ultimate, One Declared, 20. One Ultimate, One Non-Ultimate, Many Undeclared, 21. One Ultimate, Many Non-Ultimate, One Declared, 22. One Ultimate, Many Non-Ultimate, Many Undeclared, 23. Many Ultimate, One Non-Ultimate, One Declared, 24. Many Ultimate, One Non-Ultimate, Many Declared, 25. Many Ultimate, Many Non-Ultimate, One Undeclared, 26. Many Ultimate, Many Non-Ultimate, Many Undeclared / 'Why is the Atomic Pudgala Declared? - The Lord has declared the Atomic Pudgala as only the third category in the above 26 categories, the remaining twenty-five categories do not occur in it. The reason for this is that ultimateness depends on something else, here there is no other object to be desired, so there is no other object to be desired. In addition, a single atomic pudgala is not a saṃśa (having many parts/components), so that its ultimateness can be imagined in relation to the parts, the atom is nirāṃśa-nirāvayava (without parts/components). The atom is not non-ultimate (middle), because being without components, it does not have a middle part. For this reason, the atom is called declared by rule. Athot - neither can it be called ultimate, nor non-ultimate / What is not worthy of being declared by the word ultimate or non-ultimate is undeclared. In the Dvipradeśīskandha, there are two categories - in the Dvipradeśīskandha, only the first (one ultimate) and the third (one declared), these two categories occur, the remaining twenty-four categories do not. The reason for calling it ultimate is that when the Dvipradeśīskandha is situated in two space regions in a samśreṇī (parallel) and becomes dense, then one atom out of its two atoms is ultimate in relation to the other atom, the other atom is also ultimate in relation to the first atom. For this reason, the Dvipradeśīskandha is called ultimate, but the Dvipradeśīskandha is not called non-ultimate, because non-ultimateness is not possible for all substances / The Dvipradeśīskandha is sometimes declared when it becomes dense in one space region, at that time it becomes transformed like an atom by a special type of oneness-transformation / For this reason, there is no reason to call the Dvipradeśīskandha ultimate or non-ultimate at that time. Therefore, it cannot be called ultimate or non-ultimate, it can only be called 'declared' at that time. In the Tripradeśīskandha, there are four categories - in the Tripradeśīskandha, the first category - 'ultimate' and the category 'declared' should be understood according to the above-mentioned Dvipradeśī's logic. Then the ninth category - 'two ultimate and one non-ultimate' is found. When the Tripradeśīskandha is dense in three space regions situated in a samśreṇī (parallel), then its two atoms at the beginning and end are ultimate (dual) because they are paryantavarti (extending to the end), and the middle atom is non-ultimate because it is madhyavarati (intermediate)! Therefore, the Tripradeśīskandha is sometimes called two ultimate and one non-ultimate. In this, the tenth category - 'many ultimate and many non-ultimate' cannot occur, because in a skandha with three regions (bahuvacanānta) there cannot be many ultimate and many non-ultimate. The eleventh category occurs in it. It is as follows: sometimes ultimate and declared / When the Tripradeśīskandha is dense in a samśreṇī (parallel) and a viśreṇī (perpendicular) in this way, then its two atoms are situated in a samśreṇī (parallel) and can be called ultimate like the Dvipradeśīskandha which is dense in two regions, and one atom is situated in a viśreṇī (perpendicular) and is therefore ultimate 1. (a) Prajñāpanasūtra M. Vṛtti, p. 240 (b) Paṇṇavaṇāsuttaṃ Bhā. 1 (Mūlapāṭha ṭippana) pp. 199-201