Five hundred and sixty-three kinds of living being, from the Jīva-vicāra: twenty-two one-sensed, six with two to four senses, twenty animals, three hundred and three humans, a hundred and ninety-eight gods, fourteen hell-beings. Four of the twenty-two are nigoda.
Śāntisūri's Jīva-vicāra, the primer every Śvetāmbara student begins with, sorts life into 563 kinds: 22 one-sensed, 6 two- to four-sensed, 20 five-sensed animals, 303 humans, 198 gods, 14 hell-beings. The twenty-two one-sensed are earth, water, fire, air and plant bodies, each subtle and gross, each developed and undeveloped — twenty — plus the plants of one soul per body, pratyeka, which are gross only.
Nigoda is the sādhāraṇa plant, subtle and gross, developed and undeveloped: four of the 563. The map lights those four among the rest. The point of the count is the disproportion — four kinds, holding infinitely more souls than the five hundred and fifty-nine others together, more in one body than have ever been freed.
Nigoda: the smallest body, the most souls — The 563 kinds highlighted