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eight types. Their names and uses are as under :
1. The Audārika types of grouping i.e. Vargaņā.
Every unit of this type of Vargaņā (grouping)'has infinite atoms. Bodies of all living beings in the whole visible universe are made of it, except the bodies of hell beings and divine beings. According to Jainism earth, water, fire and wind are also living being and, their bodies are also made up of this type of Vargaņā.
2. The Vaikriya Vargaņā
Every unit of this type of Vargaņā has also infinite atoms (paramāņus). But unit of this type of Vargaņā has many more numbers of atoms than the number of atoms in the former type of Vargaņā. Similarly every unit of later type of Vargaņā has an increasingly larger number of paramāņus (atoms), which are more and more subtle in form. Bodies of gods and goddesses i. e. divine beings and hellish beings are made of this type of paramāņu-units (Vargaņā). Even human beings sometimes make another body of this type of paramāņu-units (Vargaņā).
3. The Āhāraka Vargaņā.
Jain monks who have attained a specific level of deep learning, use the paramāņu-units of this type of grouping (Vargaņā) to make a crystaline body of the size of a close-fisted hand.
4. The Taijas Vargaņā.
With the paramāņu-units of this Vargaņā (grouping), a subtle called taijas (vital) body is formed by every living being. Food is digested with its help.
5. The Bhāṣā Vargaņā.
All living beings varying from those with two senses to those with five senses, celestial, human and hellish beings absorb the paramāņu-units of this Vargaņā, and transform them into distinct or indistinct sound and release them in the atmosphere.
6. The śvāsācchvāsa Vargaņā.
Every living being inhales and exhales with the paramāņu-units of this Vargaņā.
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