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Sugaropama is one hundred million millions of Palyas, and an Avasarpini and Utsarpini, which make up a great age, consists each of one hundred million millions of Sagaras. Pudgala is atomic matter, distinguished like the first three categories, by being combined in three degrees — little, much, and most, whilst it adds a fourth state, or that of Paramánu, primitive, subtle, indivisible, and uncombined.
III. The third Tattwa is Punya, Good, or whatever is the cause of happiness to living beings: the subdivisions of this category are forty-two: it will be sufficient here to enumerate a few of the principal.
1. Uchchhairgotra, high birth, rank, or the respect of mankind.
2. Manushyagati, the state of man, either as obtained from some other form of being or continuance in it.
3. Suragati, the state of divinity, Godhead.
4. Panchendriya, the state of superior vitality, or possession of five organs of sense.
5. Panchadeha, the possession of body, or form of one of five kinds:
Audárika, elementary—that arising from the aggregation of elements, as the bodies of men and beasts.
Vaikriya, transmigrated that assumed in consequence of acts, as the forms of spirits and gods.
Áhárika, adventitious, one assumed, such as that of the Púrvadharas, of one cubit in stature, when they went to see the Tirthankaras in Mahavidehakshetra.
Taijası, the forin obtained by suppressing mortal wants, in which state fire can be ejected from the body.
