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## First, the five types of liberated souls:
(7) **Buddhabodhitsiddha** - Those who become liberated through the teachings of a Bodhisattvacarya (a fully enlightened teacher) are called Buddhabodhitsiddha.
**Strilingasiddha** - Among these liberated souls, some are **Strilingasiddha** (liberated souls with a female body). The characteristic that identifies a female is called **Strilinga**. It can be identified through three things: Veda (scripture), body structure, and attire.
Here, the focus is on the body structure of a female. It is not about the Veda or attire because the Veda cannot be attained by a liberated soul, and attire is not authentic.
Therefore, those who are liberated while having a female body are called **Strilingasiddha**. This refutes the statement "Women cannot attain liberation." The path to liberation is through right faith, knowledge, and conduct. This **Ratnatraya** (three jewels) can be attained by women as well as men. The female body is not an obstacle to practicing this path or teaching it.
(6) **Purushalingasiddha** - Those who are liberated while having a male body are called **Purushalingasiddha**.
(10) **Napumsakalingasiddha** - Those who are liberated while having a body that is neither male nor female, but **Napumsaka** (eunuch), are called **Napumsakalingasiddha**.
(11) **Swalingsiddha** - Those who are liberated while maintaining their own gender, i.e., in the attire of a woman, are called **Swalingsiddha**.
(12) **Aligasiddha** - Those who are liberated while maintaining a different gender, i.e., in the attire of a renunciant, are called **Aligasiddha**.
(13) **Grihalingasiddha** - Those who are liberated while maintaining the attire of a householder are called **Grihalingasiddha**, like Marudevi.
"Those who are bound by external causes like clothes are called **Pattayabuddha**. They follow the rules of the enlightened ones. They are called **Pattayabuddha** because they follow the rules."
"There are two types of **Pattayabuddha**: those who follow the rules strictly and those who follow them loosely. There are nine types of rules for those who follow them strictly, and they are like the rules of the **Pauras** (householders)."
"If a **Samyambuddha** (self-enlightened one) has a previous body, it is good. If not, then the rules of the body are followed in the presence of a teacher. If one is capable of following the rules of conduct and behavior, then one can follow them alone. Otherwise, one should follow them in a group."
"There are eleven types of rules for **Pattayabuddha** and ten types of rules for those who follow them loosely. They can give up their body or not.
2. This is the explanation of the **linga** (gender) and its characteristics. It is of three types: Veda, body structure, and attire. Here, the focus is on the body structure, not on the Veda or attire.
3. For a detailed discussion on the liberation of women, see **Prajnapanasutra**, **Mahavratti**, pages 20-22. See **Gomatsarasara** by Digambara Acharya Nemichandra, **Adyalapubbeya**, **Itthiveya** (there are forty of them). Twenty are **Napumsakaveya** (eunuchs), and they are liberated by remembering.