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2. The types of worldly jīvas;
3. The types and sub-types of sense-organs, their names, their respective objects, and the distribution of sense-organs among the mass of jīvas;
4. The state intervening in between death and a new birth;
5. The types of births and birth-places and their distribution among the various species of living beings;
6. The types of bodies, their relative superiority and inferiority, their respective possessors, and the possibility of their simultaneous presence;
7. The distribution of sexual characteristics among the species of living beings, and the mention of those enjoying such a life-quantum as is incapable of being interrupted in the middle.
Chapters three and four :
8. The sub-regions of the lower loka-region, and the general condition, life-extent etc. of the hellish beings residing in it.
9. A geographical account of the middle loka-region by way of describing the oceans, continents, mountains, continental sub-regions etc., and a mention of the life-extent of the human beings, animals, birds etc. residing in it.
10. The different species of the heavenly beings, their entourage, the gradation of the pleasures enjoyed by them, their prosperity, their life-extent, and an astronomical account by way of describing the heavenly bodies.
Chapter five :
11. The types of substances, their mutual similarities and dissimilarities, their area of occupation, their respective functions;
12. The nature of pudgala (=matter), its types, and the causes of their origination;
13. A reasoned account of the nature of what is real and
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