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capacity) and those enlightened by the teachings of others, constitute the two kinds. Jñāna: By what knowledge? Liberation is attained by one, two, three and four kinds of knowledge. Avagāhanā: Stature is the pervasion of the space-points. It is of two kinds, the maximum and the minimum. The maximum is 525 bows - dhanusa - and the minimum a little less than three and a half cubits (aratni). In between, there are several degrees. Liberation is attained in any one of these degrees of stature. Antara: What is the interval? When the liberation of souls is continuous without an interval, the minimum of this duration is two instants-samaya - and the maximum is eight instants. The minimum interval (i.e., the time when no one attains liberation) is one instant and the maximum is six months. Samkhyā: At the minimum in one instant one soul attains liberation, and at the maximum one hundred and eight souls attain liberation. Alpabahutva: The difference in the numbers of the souls distinguished on the basis of place, and so on, is ‘more or less' (alpabahutva). It is as follows. From the standpoint of the present, in the abode of the liberated, there is no ‘more or less' in the case of the souls attaining liberation. Now it is considered from the standpoint of the past. The liberated souls on the regional basis are of two kinds, those liberated from their place of birth and those from that to which they have been transported. The souls liberated from the regions to which they are conveyed are less. Those liberated from the regions of their birth are numerable-fold. The regions are divided into the continents of labour, the lands of enjoyment, the oceans, the islets, the upper-world, the lower-world and the middle-world. The souls liberating from the upper world are the least. The souls liberating from the lower world are numerablefold. Those liberating from the middle world are numerablefold. Again, those liberating from the oceans constitute the smallest number. Those liberating from the islets are numerable-fold. This has been described in general. The least of all are those liberating from the Lavaṇasamudra. Those liberating from the Kāloda ocean are
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