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**Chhakhandagam**
Upon an increase of one atom above the most excellent category of body-substance, the second most inferior category of Dhruva-shunya is obtained. Again, upon an increase of one atom at a time, going forward an infinite number of times beyond all living beings, the most excellent category of Dhruva-shunya is obtained. This category also remains eternally in the form of zero. This is the eighteenth category.
- Upon an increase of one atom above the most excellent category of Dhruva-shunya, the most inferior category of Badaar-nigoda is obtained. This category is obtained at the end of the twelfth Gunasthan of a Ksheen-kashya living being who has come through the Kshepit-karma-ashik method. One reason for this is that the accumulation of karma and no-karma of a living being who has come through the Kshepit-karma-ashik method gradually decreases. Another reason is that due to the purification of a living being who ascends the Kshepak-shreni, a special power is generated, which causes the first time, upon reaching the twelfth Gunasthan of that living being, the infinite Badaar-nigoda living beings situated in his body to die. The second time, even more infinite Badaar-nigoda living beings die. In this way, until the time of Avali-prithaktva-pramaan, an increasingly greater number of Badaar-nigoda living beings die every time. Beyond that, in the time of Ksheen-kashya, until the time of an uncountable fraction of Avali remains, a countable fraction more, a countable fraction more Badaar-nigoda living beings die every time. After that, in time, an uncountable number of times more Badaar-nigoda living beings die. In this way, until the end of the twelfth Gunasthan, the Badaar-nigoda living beings situated in his body die an uncountable number of times every time. Thus, the collection of karma and no-karma categories, including their Vilas-upachaya, of all the Badaar-nigoda living beings who die at the end of the twelfth Gunasthan, is called one Badaar-nigoda category. Since this is the most inferior compared to other Badaar-nigoda categories, it is called the most inferior Badaar-nigoda category at the end of the twelfth Gunasthan of a Kshepit-karma-ashik living being. In the body of the Mooli born in the Karma-bhoomi related part of the Swayambhu-raman-dweep, the most excellent Badaar-nigoda category is present. In the middle, based on the bodies of various living beings, these Badaar-nigoda categories are of countless types, from the most inferior to the most excellent. This is the nineteenth category.
Upon an increase of one atom in the most excellent Badaar-nigoda category, the third most inferior category of Dhruva-shunya is obtained. Again, upon an increase of one atom at a time above this, going forward an infinite number of times beyond all living beings, the most excellent category of Dhruva-shunya is obtained. This category also remains in the form of zero. This is the twentieth category.
Upon an increase of one atom above the said most excellent Dhruva-shunya category, the most inferior category of Sukshma-nigoda is obtained. This category is obtained through the Kshepit-kaanshi-k method and the Kshepit-ghol-maan method.