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(6) the space-points of Adhammatthikaya;
(7) Agasatthikaya (that is, the substance, imagined as a collection of parts, giving accommodation to other substances);
(8) the parts of Agasatthikaya;
(9) the space-points of the Agasatthikāya;
(10) the time-instant (Addhasamaya).
[SUTTAS 402
402.
Of how many kinds, O Lord, are the non-soul substances with form stated to be? They are, Goyama, stated to be fourfold, viz. (1) material bodies (khamdha);
(2) parts of material bodies;
(3) space-points of material bodies;
(4) material atoms.
403. Are they, O Lord, numerable, innumerable or intinite? They are, Goyama, not numerable, nor innumerable, but infinite. In what sense, O Lord, is it said that (these are) not numerable, nor innumerable, but infinite? The material atoms (monads), Goyama, are infinite; the duads (that is, bodies consisting of two space-points) are infinite;...up to... the bodies consisting of infinite space-points infinite. In this sense, Goyama, it is said that (these) are not numerable, nor innumerable, but infinite.
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404. Are the soul-substances, O Lord, numerable, innumerable or infinite? (They are), Goyama, not numerable, nor innumerable, but infinite. In what sense, O Lord, is it said that (they are) not numerable, nor innumerable, but infinite? The hell-beings, Goyama, are innumerable; Asurakumāras are innumerable;... up to... Thaniyakumāras are innumerable; the earth-bodied beings are innumerable; ...up to... the air-bodied beings are innumerable; the plant-bodied beings are infinite; two sensed beings are innumerable;...up to... foursensed beings are innumerable; five-sensed animal-beings are innumerable; human beings are innumerable; Joisiyas are innumerable; Vanamamtariyas are innumerable; Vemānijas are innumerable; the liberated (souls) are infinite. In this sense, it is, Gotama, said that (they are) not numerable, nor innumerable, but infinite.
405. Of how many kinds, O Lord, are the bodies stated to be? There are, Goyama, five (kinds of) bodies, viz.
(i) gross body (oralia);
(ii) transformation-body (veuvvia); (iii) translocation-body (āhāraa); (iv) fiery body (teyaa);
(v) karmic body (kammaa).
1. Vide supra, sutta No. 400.
