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Zelen8. ] Ngāya-Kusumānjali They have nothing to do with the worldly affairs and have reached the state of perfection.
Some persons admit the fire-bodied and the airbodied souls as Sthavara, while others hold a contrary opinion. These differences in opinion can be reconciled as follows. It is true that Sthavara literally means stationary-immobile, while Trasa signifies mobile. Thus if we were to take into account the literal meanings of these words, we cannot look upon the fire-bodied and the air-bodied souls as Sthavara. But if we consider Sthavara as a technical name to be applied to the one-organed beings and as having nothing to do with its literal meaning, we can include the fire-bodied and the air-bodied in the category of Sthavara. Tattvarthadhigama Sutra holds the latter opinion. Jivabhigama and Acharanga-niryuktivgitti differ from this as well as from each other in their consideration about Trasa. Both of these divide the Trasa souls into two kinds, Gati-Trasa and Labdhi-Trasa but they differ in the meanings of these words. According to Jivabhigama, the souls having more than one organ are called Gati-Trasa, while the fire-bodied and the air-bodied souls are looked upon as Labdhi-Irasa. The contrary is the opinion of Acharanga-niryukti-vritti, for, according to it the fire-bodied and the air-bodied are Gati-Trasa and the souls having more than one organ, LabdhiTrasa.
In the next verse are mentioned the number of Paryaptis (powers) that the living beings of different
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