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THEIR INDRAS.. The Residentials have 20 Indras, 2 for each of their 10 classes. The Peripatetics have 16 Indras, 2 for each of their 8 classes.
The Heavenly beings have 12 Indras (see page 4 above). It may be added that the Human and the Sub-human beings have one Indras each.
Thus there are 50 Indras. Each Indra has a Prati-Indra or a sort of Co-Indra or Heir-apparent, except Chakravarti and Singha who are respectively the Indras of Human and Sub-human living beings. The Stellars also have the Sun and the Moon as their Indra and Prati-Indra.
The Devas.
Indra.
Prati-Indra.
Residential Peripatetic Heavenly Stellar ... Human ... Sub-human
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Total.
100
Thus the total of Indras in Jaina pantheon is 100,
THEIR LIVING. The gods are born by spontaneous rise. There is no pregnancy or labour attendant upon their birth. Ai mundane soul going to be born as a god, simply rises from a Sayya or Seja or couch of divine space. It is like the soul investing itself in a luminous cloud, wbich forms its fluid body, just rising into its celestial existence.
The gods have the male or the female sex. There is no neuter sex among them.
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