Agam 15 Upang 04 Pragnapana Sutra Part 02

SR No.: 001064
Original Sutra Author: Shyamacharya
Author: Punyavijay, Dalsukh Malvania, Amrutlal Bhojak
Publisher: Mahavir Jain Vidyalay
Publication Year: 1971
Total Pages: 934
Language: Prakrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari, Agam, Canon, Metaphysics, & agam_pragyapana
File Size: 16 MB

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the life-span of samkhyata years bind the karma determining the life-span of their next birth when there remains 1/3 of their present life-span, provided their present life-span is of the nirupakrama type. And those same beings bind the same when there remains 1/3 or 1/9 or 1/27 of their present life-span, provided their present life-span is of the sopakrama type (681-682).
8. Agarisa (Sk. Akarṣa): Akarṣa means grasping karma through the instrumentality of the concerned types of activity. When we are given a glass of water, we drink it in one sip or in many sips. Similarly, karmic material particles are grasped either in one akarṣa or in many akarṣas. Here first we are told as to what types of ayukarma are possible in the different classes of living beings. Afterwards we are given the information as to how many akarṣas are required for the grasping of the particles of ayukarmas of different types.
The bondage of ayukarma is of six kinds in the case of all the living beings (685). All the living beings grasp the material particles of ayukarma in one to eight akarṣas (687-690). Thus as there are eight alternatives in the grasping of the material particles of ayukarma, eight groups of living beings are formed on the basis of those alternatives and then their relative numerical strength is calculated. The number of those who grasp these concerned particles in eight akarṣas is the smallest. And with the decrease in the number of akarṣas, the numerical strength of the groups increases asamkhyāta times. So, the number of those who grasp the karmic matter by one akarṣa is the greatest (691-692).
Following are the six types of bondage of ayukarma (684):
1. Jati-nama-nidhatta-ayu: The Sanskrit counterpart of nidhatta is niṣikta. Generally a living being arranges the karmic atoms grasped in one samaya in the order in which they are to be experienced. This arrangement is called niṣeka. And that which gets arranged in this way is called nidhatta (Sk. nişikta). In the sub-types of nama-karma occur the classes, viz. a class of the onesensed, a class of the two-sensed, a class of the three-sensed, a class of the four-sensed and a class of the five-sensed living beings. The ayukarma that is arranged with the jäti-nama-karma (=namakırma determining the class in which a living being is to take birth) is known as jāti-nama-nidhatta-ayu.
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Gati-nama-nidhatta-ayu:
In the sub-types of namakarma there occur the four classes of existence, viz. a class of celestial beings, a class of infernal beings, a class of human beings and a class of sub-human beings. That ayu-karma which is arranged with the gati-nama-karma (the nama-karma determining the class of