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Question: How many types of plant bodies are there? What is their nature?
Answer: There are two types of plant bodies - (1) **pratyek** and (2) **sadharan**. **Pratyek** is a plant body where only one living being is the owner of the body. **Sadharan** is a plant body where the bodies of living beings are in a **nigod** form due to the rise of **sadharan karma**, where countless living beings reside in one body and their food, breathing, life, and death are the same. These have two types in terms of **badar** and **sukshma**. It is special that in a **badar nigod** body or a **sukshma nigod** body, the countless **sadharan** living beings born together are either **paryaptak** or **aparyaptak**, but not mixed, because they have the same rule of **karma uday**.
68. Question: How many types of **pratyek** plants are there?
Answer: There are two types of **pratyek** plants - (1) **sapratiṣṭhita pratyek** and (2) **apratiṣṭhita pratyek**.
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