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4) Single Occupancy Body:As per Jaina science, each drop of water is made up of numberless living-beings. However, every body cell (here tubular yoni) will have only one soul. This is in contrast with the “Nigoda” plant life, where one body accommodates several lives. 5) Body size (Avgahana):The length of the body of one water-bodied living-being is equal to the minutest part of a finger length. In other words, its body is so small that even one drop of water would contain countless numbers of life bearing units. Water is considered to be a "lump” of lives. As per modern science, millions of vapor molecules form one drop of liquid water. 6) Compactness:Uncountable sthavara Jîva (immobile living-beings) reside in a drop of water. Even innumerable living beings with under developed bodies (Aparyãpta) can prosper under the cover of a fully-developed water body. Science does not understand as yet such form of life! 7) Nature of body:It is loose like a bubble. Certain molecular structures are known to science, but detailed studies about them are lacking. 8) Population:The relative numbers of various Sthavara Jîva (immobile livingbeings) in the universe are given by Jaina science as follows:
The least no. is that of Mobile/Traskāya Jîva. ii) Fire-bodied are innumerable times more than the mobile
ones. Earth-bodied living beings are slightly less than two times of fire-bodied living beings, Apkayika (Jalakayika) is slightly less than twice the no. of.
earth-bodied living-beings. V) Air-bodied living-beings are slightly less than two times of
Apkayika. Plant-beings, including Nigoda, are infinite times more than the no. of air-bodied living-beings.
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