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Shataka
22 manaus are born, and as they are, their subtle and subtler forms are measured.
The penetration of the audārika and other vargaṇās is such that it is successively one-half, one-quarter, one-eighth, one-sixteenth, and so on, of an angula. This should be understood.
Due to this subtlety, even though the physical body of the audārika has few atoms, its tejas and kārmaṇa bodies, which are present within it, have many more atoms, and hence are not visible.
After mentioning the tejas vargaṇā, the text mentions language, respiration, and manovargaṇā, and finally places the kārmaṇa vargaṇā at the end. The reason for this is that the vargaṇās after the tejas vargaṇā are even more subtle. That is, the vargaṇās that are transformed into speech are more subtle than the vargaṇās that are transformed into respiration. The manovargaṇā, which forms the basis of mental contemplation, is even more subtle than the respiratory vargaṇā. The kārmaṇa vargaṇā is more subtle than the manovargaṇā. From this, one can infer how much more subtle they are, but how much more numerous the atoms in them are.
The discussion of the grāhya (apprehensible) and agrāhya (unapprehensible) vargaṇās of the audārika body has been done in the previous verse. Here, the grāhya and agrāhya vargaṇās of the vaikriya, etc. are being explained.
The agrāhya, excellent vargaṇā of the audārika body is the group-form vargaṇā of the skandhas in which there is one more atom than the skandhas in which the jighanya (inferior) vargaṇā of the vaikriya body, which is grāhya, is found. The group-form of the skandhas in which one more pradeśa than the pradeśas of the skandhas of this jighanya vargaṇā is found, is the second...