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Nigodas are innumerable from the substantial point of view, and thus paryāptaka and aparyāptaka nigodas also.40 Sükşma Nigodas are innumerable from the substantial point of view, thus Suksma paryäptaka and aparyaptakas also and Badara Nigodas, Badara-paryāptakas-and Bādara-aparva. ptaka also 41 should be known.
Nigodajīvas
Nigoda vas are infinite in number from the substantial point of view. thus paryāptakas and a paryāptakas also, thus Sūksmanigodajivas also. paryāptakas also, aparyāptakas also, badarabigodajīvas also, paryāptakas also, aparyäptakas also49 should be regarded.
Nigodas are infinite in number from the modal point of view, thus paryāptakas and aparyāptakas also, thus sükşmanigoda paryāptakas and aparyāptakas also, thus sükşma nigodaparyāptakas and aparyäptakas thus badaranigodas also, paryāptakas and aparyāptakas also 43, should be known.
Nigoda jivas also are thus of seven classes and all are infinite in number from the model point of view. 44
Next the Jivābhigama sutta discusses the comparative numbers (alpatvabahutya) of all types of Nigodas and Nigodajivas from the substantial and modal points of view,46
These ultramicroscopic forms of living beings (nigodas), which take their game from the very fact that they are tiny enough exists in infinite number in common nigodśarira 46 Nigodas do not really reproduce themselves, but they are reproduced in infinite number by the enzymic machinery present in other living cells, as it is suggested by the statement that in the common body where one sou) dies there takes place the death of infinite
40 Niudānam.... davvatthayāe.....no samkhejjā asam khejjā no anamtā evam pajjättagkvi
appajja ttagāvi,' Jīvàbhigama, p. 998. 41 "Suhümaniudānam....davvätthayae..... no samkhejjā no anamtā, evam pajjattagāvi
apajjattagāvi evam bāyarāvi pajjattagävi appajjattagāvi, no samkhejjā asarkhejjā no
anantā l', Ibid., p. 998, 42 (Ņiuyajivānam davvatthayãe....anamtā evam pajjatlagāvi appajjatlagāvi, evam-subu.
maņiuyajivavi pajjaltagāvi appajjattagăvi bādaraạiuyajivāvi pajjattagāvi appájjattagavi',
Ibid., p. 999 43 'Niudă nam bhamte padesaţthayāe....anamtā evam suhūmaniuyāvi pajjattagavi
appajjattagāvi paesatthayae sa vve anamtā evam, bāyaraniuyävi pajjattagāvi appaj.
jațțagāvi paesatthayae savye anamtā 1. lbid. 44 'Evam şiudajivāvi sattayihä paesatthayāe savve anamtā l'Ibid., p. 1000. 45 Ibid., pp. 1000-1007, 46 Ni=Niyatām, gār=bhūmim, kşetrañ, nivāsa manantānantajivānāṁ dadätīti nigodan
Gommaļasāra (Jivakända), v. 191, (comm.), P. 118,
