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## 100] [ Prajñāpanā Sūtra [5] and Karmagaśarīra Vi Bhāṇiyavvā / [910-5] In the same way, it should be said about the karmic body.
**Discussion of the five bound-liberated bodies** - This sūtra (910-1 to 5) presents the quantity of the five bodies, both bound and liberated, in relation to substance, space, and time.
**Definition of bound and liberated** - The bodies that are grasped (taken) by the living beings are called bound bodies, and the bodies that the living beings have grasped and abandoned in their past lives are called liberated bodies.
**Quantity of bound-liberated bodies** - The scholars have considered the quantity of the bound and liberated forms of the five bodies in relation to substance, space, and time. In relation to substance, it is from the non-manifest (abhavya) etc., in relation to space, it is from the series (śreṇi), the other (pratar) etc., and in relation to time, it is by the beginning (āvalika) etc.
**Quantity of bound and liberated audārika bodies** - Bound audārika bodies are innumerable. Although the living beings who hold the bound audārika bodies are infinite, the reason why the quantity of bound audārika bodies is said to be innumerable is this: the living beings who hold audārika bodies are of two types - each-bodied (pratyekasārīrī) and infinite-bodied (anantakāyika).
Each-bodied living beings have separate audārika bodies, but those who are infinite-bodied do not have separate audārika bodies, they have only one for infinite-infinite living beings. Therefore, even though the audārika-bodied living beings are infinite-infinite, their bodies are only innumerable.
**In relation to time** - Bound audārika bodies are taken away in innumerable ascending (utsarpiṇī) and innumerable descending (avasarpiṇī) periods. This means that if one audārika body is taken away in each period of ascending and descending time, then innumerable ascending and descending periods would pass in taking away all the audārika bodies.
**In relation to space** - Bound audārika bodies are as numerous as innumerable worlds. This means that if all the bound audārika bodies are placed in separate spaces in the sky in their own form (pṛthak-pṛthak) from their own comprehension, then the sky of innumerable worlds would be filled with those separately placed bodies.
**Liberated audārika bodies** are infinite. Their quantity is equal to the time of taking away infinite ascending and descending periods. That is, if one liberated audārika body is taken away in each period of ascending and descending time, then infinite ascending and descending periods would end in taking away all the liberated audārika bodies. In short, it can be said that the number of liberated audārika bodies is equal to the number of periods in infinite ascending and descending periods.
**In relation to space** - They are as numerous as infinite worlds. This means that there are innumerable regions in one world. There are as many liberated audārika bodies as there are regions in the sky of such infinite worlds.
**In relation to substance** - Liberated audārika bodies are infinite times greater than the non-manifest (abhavya) living beings, but they are only an infinite part of the perfected (siddh) living beings. That is, they are not equal to the number of perfected living beings.
**A doubt in this regard** - If this number of liberated audārika bodies is considered to be unchanged (as it is), then they cannot be infinite, because according to the rule, the state of the particles (pudgala) is at most for an innumerable period of time, so these liberated bodies cannot remain unchanged for an infinite period of time.