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190 [Prajñāpanasūtra [1043-1 Pr.] Bhagavan! How many past dravyendriyas does each human being have in the Nairyāyika state? [1043-1 U.] Gautama! (They are) infinite. [Pr.] (Bhagavan! How many) bound dravyendriyas does he have? [U.] Gautama! None. [Pr.] (Bhagavan! How many) rewarded dravyendriyas does he have? [U.] Gautama! Some have them, some do not, those who have them, have eight, sixteen, twenty-four, countable, uncountable or infinite. / [2] And so on, in the five-sense-transcendent-realm (one should speak about past, bound and rewarded dravyendriyas). The special point is that in the one-sense and the impaired-sense beings, as many rewarded dravyendriyas as are said to be possessed by them, so many should be said. [3] Bhagavan! How many past dravyendriyas does a human being have in the human realm? [1043-3 U.] Gautama! Infinite. [Pr. How many bound dravyendriyas does he have? [U.] Gautama! (They are) eight. [Pr] How many rewarded dravyendriyas does he have? [U.] Gautama (They) some have them, some do not, those who have them, have eight, sixteen, twenty-four, countable, uncountable or infinite. [4] (Each human being) should be understood to have the same number of past, bound and rewarded dravyendriyas as mentioned in (Sū. 1043-1) in the form of Nairyāyika, in the form of Vāṇavyantara, Jyotiṣka and (from Saudharma to) Prāveya Devata. / [5] Bhagavan! How many past dravyendriyas does a human being have in the Vijay-Vejayanta-Jayanta-Aparājita Devata state? [U.] Gautama! Some have them, some do not, those who have them, have eight or sixteen. [Pr. How many bound dravyendriyas does he have? [U.] Gautama! Eight. [Pr] How many rewarded dravyendriyas does he have? [U.] Gautama! Some have them, some do not, those who have them, have eight or sixteen.