The Multitudes
Every class of living being ranked by how many there are, from fewest to most, in the Prajñāpanā's own words for each step - and the one countable rung, humans, with the commentators' twenty-nine-digit maximum.
Alpabahutva, the little and the many, is a whole pada of the Prajñāpanā, and it never gives a count. It gives an order, fewest to most, and for each step one of four words: a little more, countably many times more, innumerably many times more, infinitely many times more. Five of its ladders are drawn on one field banded into the atlas's three magnitudes: the five destinies, by senses, by body, by gender, the seven hells. Humans are the fewest things alive and the only countable rung; the commentators give their maximum as the number with ninety-six halvings, 2^96 − 1, printed in full and checked by arithmetic. Plants, with the nigoda among them, are the top of every ladder they stand on. Follows the Śvetāmbara reckoning throughout.
All of it is also walkable as an interactive atlas of nested maps.
The fewest 2
- Chedanaka छेदनक
Counting by cutting in half - The fewest of all मनुष्य · संख्यात
Humans: the one countable class
The ladders 7
- By body अल्पबहुत्व
A ladder of the Prajñāpanā - By five destinies अल्पबहुत्व
A ladder of the Prajñāpanā - By gender अल्पबहुत्व
A ladder of the Prajñāpanā - By senses अल्पबहुत्व
A ladder of the Prajñāpanā - By seven hells अल्पबहुत्व
A ladder of the Prajñāpanā - The four relations विशेषाधिक · संख्यातगुण · असंख्यातगुण · अनन्तगुण
The only words the text uses for a step - The Multitudes अल्पबहुत्व
Every class of being ranked by number