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243. Question: How many individual beings are there in each of the five *guna sthānas* from *mithyātva* to the fifth *guna sthāna*? Answer: There are countless *mithyādṛṣṭi* beings. In *deśa-saṃyata*, there are thirteen crore humans and countless times more *tiryac* beings. In *sāsādana* *guna sthāna*, there are fifty-two crore humans and countless times more beings of the remaining three *gatis* than *śrāvakas*. In *mitra* *guna sthāna*, there are one hundred and four crore humans and countless times more beings of the remaining three *gatis* than those in *sāsādana* *guna sthāna*. In *avirata-samyakta* *guna sthāna*, there are seven hundred crore humans and countless times more beings of the remaining three *gatis* than those in *miśra* *guna sthāna*. 244. Question: How many individual beings are there in each of the *guna sthānas* from *pramatta-virata* to *ayogakevali* *guna sthāna*? Answer: The number of *saṃyata* beings in *pramatta* *guna sthāna* is five crore sixty-three lakh sixty-eight thousand two hundred and six (5,63,68,206). The number of *saṃyata* beings in *aprammatta* *guna sthāna* is two crore sixty-six lakh sixty-six thousand one hundred and three (2,66,66,103). The number of *saṃyata* beings in the eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh *guna sthānas* of the *upasama* *śreṇī* is 266 (126).