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**In the context of the Parimaṇḍala, Venerable Sir, is the arrangement of the countless-region-based, countless-region-encompassing, ultimate, or is it the non-ultimate, or is it both ultimate and non-ultimate, or is it neither ultimate nor non-ultimate?**
**Gautama!** In the context of the Parimaṇḍala, the arrangement of the countless-region-based, countless-region-encompassing, is neither ultimate nor non-ultimate. It should be understood as being like the countless-region-encompassing, as described in Sūtra 798. Similarly, this understanding should be applied to all arrangements up to the Āyatasanthāna.
**In the context of the Parimaṇḍala, Venerable Sir, is the arrangement of the infinite-region-based, countless-region-encompassing, ultimate, or is it the non-ultimate, or is it both ultimate and non-ultimate, or is it neither ultimate nor non-ultimate?**
**Gautama!** In the context of the Parimaṇḍala, the arrangement of the infinite-region-based, countless-region-encompassing, should be understood as being like the countless-region-based, countless-region-encompassing, as described in Sūtra 797, up to the Āyatasanthāna.
**Just as (in Sūtra 800) it was said about the infinite-region-based, countless-region-encompassing (regarding the ultimate, non-ultimate, etc. of the Parimaṇḍala and other arrangements), so too should it be said about the infinite-region-based, countless-region-encompassing (regarding the Parimaṇḍala and other arrangements) up to the Āyatasanthāna.**
**Venerable Sir, in the context of the Parimaṇḍala, regarding the arrangement of the countless-region-based, countless-region-encompassing, non-ultimate, what are the ultimate, the non-ultimate, the ultimate-ending regions, and the non-ultimate-ending regions, in terms of the Dvaṭṭaya, the Padeṣaṭṭaya, and the Dambhuṭupadeṣaṭṭaya?**
**Gautama!** In the context of the Parimaṇḍala, regarding the arrangement of the countless-region-based, countless-region-encompassing, non-ultimate:
* **Dvaṭṭaya:** There is one non-ultimate, two ultimate, and two both ultimate and non-ultimate.
* **Padeṣaṭṭaya:** There is one ultimate-ending region, two non-ultimate-ending regions, and two both ultimate-ending and non-ultimate-ending regions.
* **Dambhuṭupadeṣaṭṭaya:** There is one non-ultimate, two ultimate, two both ultimate and non-ultimate, two ultimate-ending regions, two non-ultimate-ending regions, and two both ultimate-ending and non-ultimate-ending regions.
This understanding should be applied to all arrangements up to the Baṭṭatansa-Cauransa-Prāyaesa.