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217. Question: How many types of worldly transformations are there?
Answer: There are five types of worldly transformations: (1) Dravya, (2) Kshetra, (3) Kala, (4) Bhav, and (5) Bhav.
218. Question: How many types of Dravya transformations are there and what is their nature?
Answer: There are two types of Dravya transformations: (1) Nokarmadravya transformation and (2) Karmadravya transformation.
Nokarmadravya transformation: A living being, at one time, has taken in pudgalas suitable for the six Paryapti forms of transformation, related to any of the three bodies (Audarika, etc.), which are endowed with the intense, mild, and moderate qualities of Snigdha, Rooksha, Varna, Gandha, etc., to the best of its ability. Later, in the second and subsequent times, it has exhausted that Dravya. Later, it has taken in and released ungrasped pudgalas an infinite number of times, taken in and released mixed Dravya an infinite number of times, and taken in and released grasped Dravya an infinite number of times. When the same living being takes in the same pudgalas endowed with the same Snigdha, Rooksha, etc., qualities, from the beginning to that period of time, it is called Nokarmadravya transformation.