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## Verse 157-156
**Description of the Katpa:**
The Katpa is described in the forest, with eight divisions, arranged in order. The vowels, the letter "N" and the number "zero" are to be discarded, as they do not convey any meaning.
**Gati Ma Ganga/223**
**Meaning:**
From the letters (K, Kh, G, Gh, Ng, Ch, Chh, J, Jh) in order, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, T, Th, D, Dh, N, T, Th, D, Dh in order, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 6, P, Ph, B, Bh, M in order, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, Y, R, L, V, S, H, one should take the number of syllables. The vowels, "T" and "N" are indicators of zero. They should be discarded, as they do not convey any meaning.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 are the measures and the letters above them.
The statement that the human population is equal to the cube of the fifth category (clouds) is not justified, because it contradicts the sutra of the Shatkhandagama, "There are countless human beings above and below countless countless countless." The cube of the fifth category (clouds) is 26 digits, but by placing 21 zeros after one, we get countless countless, which is 22 digits, and by placing 28 zeros after one, we get countless countless countless, which is 29 digits. However, the cube of the fifth category, even though it is 26 digits, exceeds this number called countless countless countless. Secondly, if the human population is equal to the cube of the fifth category (clouds), then this population should fit in the human region (616708466666416200000000 pratirangal). If we multiply the number of human beings, 76228162514264337563543650336, by the pratirangal, then we will have to multiply the human region by the same number.
**Doubt:**
The area of the human region is obtained from the pratirangal, how can the human population, which is only a fraction of the pratirangal, fit in it?
**Solution:**
This doubt is not valid, because the human population, which is the most dense (3 kos), has a mouth expansion in the form of a multiplier of the pratirangal. Similarly, the human population cannot fit in the Jambudvipa-sized aircraft of the Sarvarthasiddhi gods, because it contradicts the assumption that the gods, with their dense population, can reside there. Therefore, one should accept that the human population is greater than one countless countless.
Three-fourths of the human population are women, and one-fourth are men and eunuchs. The word "manushini" should not be taken to mean dravyastri, i.e., women, because dravyastri cannot give up clothes, and clothes are inseparable from non-restraint. Therefore, dravyastri can only have the fifth guna sthana, which is restraint and non-restraint, but not restraint. However, manushini can have restraint.
1. Go. Ji. Ka. Ga. 158, Samyaggyanachandrika commentary. 2. Dh. Pu. 3, p. 25.5. 3. Shra. Pu. 3, p. 158. 4. Va. Pu. 7, p. 256.