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GOMMATASARA.
part of one cubic finger, (and that of the) three (sensed) four (sensed) and five (sensed soul) (as in the cases of) Kunthu, Kána Makshiká (a certain earfly (and) sikthaka matsya (a certain tiny sort of fish) (is) respectively numerable times the bodily sizes of the immediately preceding one.
Commentary.
For example, let us suppose that the size of Anundhari is 1000 cubic finger and suppose the multiplicant is 2, then the size of Kunthu would be, that of Kána Makshiká 3-2 and that of Sikthaka matsya would be cubic finger.
It will be seen that the minimum bodily size of any developable mobile soul is only some part of cubic finger.
The method of finding out the different variations in bodily sizes between the minimum and the maximum is described in the following five gathas :
सुहमणिवा
भूवाते आणि पदिहिदं इदरं । बिति च पमादिल्लागं एयाराणं तिसेढीय ॥ ६७ ॥
सूक्ष्मनिवाते
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भूवाते अनिप्रतिष्ठितमितरत् ।
द्वित्रिचाद्यानामेकादशानां त्रिश्रेणयः ॥ ६७ ॥
97. (Out of the sixteen non-developable ) Fine nigoda, air, fire, water and earth (bodied souls ; gross air, fire, water, earth-bodied and nigoda souls ), host - individual-souled and the other (i. e., non-host-individual-souled vegetables); and the two, three, four and five (sense-souls ) ; three rows should be made by the (first) eleven. अपदिदिपत्तेयं बिति च पति चविप्रपदिट्टिदं सयलं । तिचविपदिविदं च य सयलं बादाल गुणिदकमा ॥ ६८ ॥ अप्रतिष्ठित प्रत्येकं द्वित्रिचपत्रिच दूधप्रतिष्ठितं सकलम् । त्रिचत्य प्रतिष्ठितं च च सकलं द्वाचत्वारिंशद्गुणितक्रमाः ॥ ६८ ॥
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98. Non-host-individual-souled, two, three, four and five (sensed developable souls, should be placed in one line, then) three, four and two (sensed souls, non-host--individualsouled vegetables and ) full (sensed-souls ) non-developable, should be placed in another line and then three,
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