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## Verse 175
## Indriyamargna/245
(SriIndriya), Bhramara (ChaturIndriya), and Manushadya (Panchendriya) are all individually, along with their respective sub-categories, countless in number, meaning they are AsankhyataAsankhyat. Nigodaya, meaning ordinary plants, are infinite. ||175||
**Special Meaning:** Apart from the stationary beings, meaning Nigodaya, all the Ekendriya beings, along with their variations and sub-variations, meaning those with Earth-like bodies, Water-like bodies, Fire-like bodies, Air-like bodies, and each type of plant-like body, are AsankhyataAsankhyat. Nigod beings are mentioned separately, therefore they are not included in the stationary beings. Among the DwIndriya beings, the conch shell has the most excellent perception, therefore mentioning conch shell encompasses all DwIndriya beings. The most well-known SriIndriya being is the ant (Pipilika). Therefore, mentioning Pipilika encompasses all TriIndriya beings. Among the ChaturIndriya beings, the bee has the most excellent perception, therefore mentioning Bhramara encompasses all ChaturIndriya beings. Among the Panchendriya beings, humans are the most prominent, because only through human conduct can a being attain liberation by cutting the karmic bonds through restraint. Therefore, mentioning Manushadya encompasses all Panchendriya beings of the four paths (mentioning Dwik Var Asankhyat encompasses AsankhyataAsankhyat, because the word Asankhyat is used twice in 'AsankhyataAsankhyat').
Ekendriya beings, Ekendriya Sukshma beings, Ekendriya Badar beings, Ekendriya Paryapt beings, Ekendriya Sukshma Paryapt beings, Ekendriya Badar Paryapt beings, Ekendriya Aparyapt beings, Ekendriya Sukshma Aparyapt beings, Ekendriya Badar Aparyapt beings, these nine categories of Ekendriya beings are infinite in number compared to the measure of substance, because Nigodaya beings are also Ekendriya. They are not exhausted by infinite numbers of Avaspirani-Utspirani, compared to the measure of time. They are infinite in number compared to the measure of space, meaning they are infinite in number of Lokas.
**Doubt:** Among the aforementioned nine categories of Ekendriya beings, beings are born in the Trasas from a countless number of parts of the universe, and the same number of beings are born in the Trasas from the Ekendriya beings. Due to the equal rate of birth and death, these nine categories of Ekendriya beings will never end. Therefore, this statement is not proven, and this sutra is not worthy of being started.
**Solution:** If the birth and death of these aforementioned nine categories were equal, then this sutra would not be worthy of being started, but the death of these categories is greater than their birth, because those who are born in the Trasas from the aforementioned nine categories, and who attain Samyaktva, destroy their worldly existence, and they do not re-enter those existences. Therefore, these nine categories are subject to death. Therefore, these nine categories are subject to death. Even though these nine categories are subject to death, they never cease to exist, because they have existed in their own form since the beginning of time. If the entire population of beings were exhausted by an infinite number of past times, then the entire population of beings would have been exhausted since the beginning of time, but this is not the case. Because such an achievement does not occur.
**Doubt:** Why is the entire population of beings not destroyed by the passage of time?
1. Ghabhal Pu. 7 P. 267-268 Sutra 57-60.