History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c23.s1.6

c23.s1.6

*Yoni-pamukha*. Chief sorts of womb, or birth. Of these there are 1,400,000 and 6,000 and 600, or 1,406,600 in all. This figure probably applies to the total number of species of living beings in the universe, and the final phrase of the list ("through which fool and wise alike will take their course") ¹ implies that each transmigrating soul must be reborn in each state in the course of its *saṃsāra*.