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## Gaba 165
## Kayamaganga/261
**Solution:** When an innumerable part of an angul is multiplied by an innumerable number, there is an increase in proportion compared to the previous one. However, the product obtained by multiplying by an innumerable number is also an innumerable part of an angul. For example, 4 is an innumerable part of the number 100. Even when four is multiplied by an innumerable number (5), the number obtained (445 - 20) is also an innumerable part of the number 100.
The bodies of the Vādaras (animals) depend on others, such as the Vādaras living on the Vātavalaya (air-ring), the Pāṭha (earth) and the Vimāna (planes) due to their wonder, so that they do not fall down. And the subtle bodies are found everywhere in water, land, etc., i.e., in the Lokākāśa (world-space), because they are free from obstruction. Vādaras live in one part of the Lokākāśa, but even one part of the Lokākāśa is not devoid of subtle beings.
**Doubt:** If the bodies of subtle beings are free from obstruction, why are they not found outside the Lokākāśa?
**Solution:** As long as there is Dharma-āstikāya (body of Dharma), there is the movement of Jīva-pudgalas (living particles). The absence of the external cooperating cause, Dharma-āstikāya, makes the movement of Jīva-pudgalas outside the Lokākāśa impossible.
The statement of the Vana-spati (plant) sthāvara-kāya (stationary body) is made through thirteen Gāthās.
**Gāthā 18:**
**Gāthārtha:** The Jīva becomes a Vana-spati due to the karma-udaya (karma-arising) of the Vana-spati. That Vana-spati is of two types, due to the difference between the general (common) and the particular. Each Vana-spati is also of two types... the established each Vana-spati and the unestablished each Vana-spati.
**Viśeṣārtha:** There are five sub-divisions of the karma-udaya called sthāvara-nāma-karma (stationary name karma). Earth, Ay (water), Teja (fire), Vāyu (air) and Vana-spati. Out of these five, the Jīva becomes Vana-spati-kāyika (plant-bodied) due to the karma-udaya of the Vana-spati sthāvara-nāma-karma. Those whose each body is each body due to nāma-karma-udaya, etc., are each Vana-spati. Those whose each, i.e., separate bodies are separate, are each body Jīvas, such as the Khaira, etc., plants. One Jīva has one body.
**Doubt:** When the characteristic of each body is described in this way, the bodies of the five sthāvaras, such as the earth-bodied, etc., also get the designation of each body.
1. Mūlācāra Paryāptyadhikāra 12 Gā. 161's commentary p. 282.
2. Lokālokāvacchedako Dhamādhiciv Gatistithi Hetū Mantavyāviti. || Pañcāstikāya Gāthā 63's commentary.
3. Tahmā Ghāmmādhāmmāgamaraṇa Dvidikāraṇāriṇa Gāsāṁ. Idi Jigaṇavarehi Bhāgadāṁ Logasahāvaṁ Sāṁgatāṇaṁ. || Paṁ.Kā.Gāthā ||
4. "Pratyekam Pṛthakśarīram Yeṣāṁ Te Pratyek Śarīgaḥ." [Ghavan Pu. 1 p. 268]
5. "Ekamy Jīvasya Eka Śarīramityarthaḥ." [Śrī Abhayacandrācāryakṛta Ṭīkā].