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A ladder of the Prajñāpanā · 3 rungs

By gender

अल्पबहुत्व

By gender, from fewest to most: male, female, neuter.

By gender, across every class of being at once: males are fewest; females countably many times more - the texts elsewhere give twenty-seven times, in the counts of gods and animals; and the neuter, napuṃsaka, infinitely more than both, because every one-sensed being and every being in the hells is neuter, and the one-sensed are infinite.

In the text's own words the ladder reads - fewest: male; countably many times more: female; infinitely many times more: neuter. Source: Prajñāpanā 3.

The multitudes: every class of being, fewest to mostPrajñāpanā 3 - an order, never a count; four words for every stepthe bands are the atlas's three magnitudes: countable, innumerable, infinitehumans are the only countable rung; plants top every ladder they stand onTHE COUNTABLETHE INNUMERABLETHE INFINITETHE FIVE DESTINIEShumans×asaṃkhyātahell-beings×asaṃkhyātagods×anantasiddhas×anantaanimals and plantsBY SENSESfive-senseda little morefour-senseda little morethree-senseda little moretwo-sensed×anantaone-sensedBY BODYmoving beings×asaṃkhyātafire-bodiesa little moreearth-bodiesa little morewater-bodiesa little moreair-bodies×anantaplant-bodiesBY GENDERmale×saṃkhyātafemale×anantaneuterTHE SEVEN HELLSthe seventh×asaṃkhyātathe sixth×asaṃkhyātathe fifth×asaṃkhyātathe fourth×asaṃkhyātathe third×asaṃkhyātathe second×asaṃkhyātathe firstthe steps: a little more · countably many times · innumerably many times · infinitely many times more - Prajñāpanā 3not to scale: the heights follow the text's word for each step, and no scale could hold a countable rung and an infinite one
The multitudes: fewest to most - By gender highlighted

Measurements and counts

Fewestmale
saṃkhyāta-guṇafemale
ananta-guṇaneuter

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समयं गोयम! मा पमायए

Do not be heedless, Gautama, for even a single samaya.

Uttarādhyayana Sūtra 10