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5) prākāmya - the ability to walk on the surface of water or swim on the surface of earth;
6) īśitva - the ability to rule the three worlds;
7) vasitva - the ability to control anyone;
8) kāmarūpitva - the ability to make many bodily forms simultaneously.
In some commentaries, garima - the ability to make one's body extremely heavy - is mentioned, in place of kāmarūpitva.
Acārya Pujyapāda asserts in Sarvärthasiddhi:
Persons with right faith, till they finally attain liberation, are destined to superior states of existence thereby getting reborn in auspicious environments only. It is said in the Scripture that persons with right faith will be reborn among the fourth order of devas - heavenly (vaimanika) devas - and not among the three lower orders, namely the residential (bhavanavāsī), the peripatetic (vyantara), and the stellar (jyotiska) devas. Those persons who are characterized by right belief and practice restraint with attachment, and restraint-cum-non-restraint, will also be reborn in the higher heavens of Saudharma kalpa and so on and not among the three lower orders of celestial beings.
Adapted from: Jain, S.A. (1960), "Reality", p. 183.
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