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## Chapter 72
The production of Right-Faithful souls is seen with female-bodied beings. This is also clarified in the Bruṇi.
**Oh, Hariyavi!**
That is to say, perhaps a Right-Faithful soul is born even among female-bodied beings. And in the fourth Gunasthāna, the Audārika-miśra Kāyayoga, there is no female-bodied or neuter-bodied being. Because female-bodied and neuter-bodied beings do not continuously produce Right-Faithful souls among the animals and humans, therefore, in the Audārika-miśra Kāyayoga, they do not obtain the twenty-four Bhanga, but obtain eight Ashṭaka. A female-bodied or neuter-bodied Right-Faithful soul is not an Audārika-miśra Kāyayogi. This should be understood from the perspective of abundance.
Thus, in the Avirata Samyagdṛṣṭi Gunasthāna, there are eighty twenty-fours of ten Yogas, the Vaikriya-miśra Kāyayoga and the Kārmeṇa Kāyayoga, each having eight sixteen-fold divisions, and the Audārika-miśra Kāyayoga having eight Ashṭaka. Their Bhanga are 80 x 24 = 1620 and 16 x 8 = 128, again 16 x 8 = 128 and 8 x 8 = 64. Their total sum is...
1 (a) These Avirata Samyagdṛṣṭi and Kriya-miśra Kārmeṇa Kāyayoga, each having eight Ashṭaka, in these Udayasthāna Vikalpa, the female-bodied being is not found. In the Vaikriya Kāyayogi, among the female-bodied beings, there is no production of Avirata Samyagdṛṣṭi. This is said based on the prevalence, otherwise, perhaps, even among the female-bodied beings, there is such a birth. - Sapttatika Prakaraṇa Tīkā, p. 217
(b) In the Digambara tradition, there is only one opinion that a Right-Faithful soul does not arise after death among female-bodied beings.
2 In the Avirata Samyagdṛṣṭi, the Audārika-miśra Kāyayoga, these eight-fold Udayasthāna Vikalpa are obtained with the Vedas, not with the female-bodied or neuter-bodied Vedas. Among the animals and humans, there is no production of Avirata Samyagdṛṣṭi among the female-bodied and neuter-bodied beings. This is said based on the abundance. - Sapttatika Prakaraṇa Tīkā, p. 217