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The Pudgala-matter is also classified in Pudgala the following manner according to other Classified.
modes of its being
(a) Sthula-Sthula (g) or the
Grossest of the gross, as, for example, logs of wood or blocks of stone ; i.e., solids which can be cut into equal parts.
(b) Sthula () or the Gross-simple, milk or water, i. e., liquids, which are restorable to their original mass-forms even after their measurable divisions.
(c) Sthula-sukshma () or the Compound of the gross and the fine (e.g. gases which is visible in the light of the sun or the moon but cannot be caught; as for example smokes and the like)
(d) Sukshma-Sthula () or the Compound of the fine and the gross is what is not visible to the eye but is perceptible by the auditory or olfactory nerves; as, for example, music and smell.
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(e) Sukshma () or the Fine.
(f) Sukshma-Sukshma (-) or the Finest of the fine, the ultimate atoms which admit of no further divisions. These finest of the fine, are mere simples as oppos
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