Shatkhandagama Pustak 06

SR No.: 001400
Original Sutra Author: Pushpadant, Bhutbali
Author: Hiralal Jain, Fulchandra Jain Shastri, Devkinandan, A N Upadhye
Publisher: Jain Sahityoddharak Fund Karyalay Amravati
Publication Year: 1943
Total Pages: 615
Language: Prakrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari, Agam, Canon, & Karma
File Size: 13 MB

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binds 22, 21, 17, 13, 9, 5, 4, 3, 2 or 1 at different stages of spiritual advancement. of the four Agu karmas, only one may be bound at a time, while of the Nama Karma 31, 30, 29, 28, 26, 25, 23 or 1 are contracted simultaneously. The Low Gotra karma is forged during the first two spiritual stages, while the High one from the first up to the 10 th stage. During the same stages all the five Antarāyas may also be forged.
3-5 The three Maha-dandakas In the first Mahå dandaka the Karmas are classified according as they are contracted or not contracted by a soul when it is about to attain Right Faith. The commentator has here explained in detail the stages by which bondage becomes less and less as one advances in purity towards the Right Faith.
The second Maha-daudaka enumerates those varieties of Karmas which a godly or bellish being, except the one in the seventh hell, may contract when about to aquire Right Faith,
The Third Mahā-dandaka enumerates the Karmas that a being in the seventh hell might bind on the point of acquiring Samyaktva.
6. Utkristha Sthiti Culika
This Culika lays down the maximum period of time for which each karma once bound may subsist. It also deals with the corresponding period of time which must elapse after each bondage, before the same begins to bear its fruit. The maximum duration is to be found in the case of the Darśana Mohaniya which may last for 70 koda kodi sagaropamas. The maximum period of the Cáritra-mohaniya is 40, of Jñänāvarniya, Darśanīvaraniya, Asātā Vedaniya and Antarāya 30, of Nica Gotra and a number of Nāma Karmas 20, and of the rest varying below twenty, till you come to a less than 1 Kodākoņi sāgaropama in the case of Ahāra Sarira and Tirthakara, 33 Sāgaropamas in the case of hellish and heavenly existence and only 3 Palyopamas in the case of a man's or a beast's life. The period which must elapse before a Karma ripes up for fruition is calculated at the rate of one hundred years for each Kodakodi sāgaropama, except in the case of Ayu karma where it is determined by the period of life which remains unexhausted at the time when the duration of the next life is determined. (For the measure of different periods of time, see Vol. 3, intro.p. 33 )
7. Jaghanya Sthiti Culika As the foregone Cúlika deals with the maximum duration of the different Karmas, so the present Cūlikå deals with the minimum periods which vary from slightly less than one Sagaropama in the case of the Darsana Mohaniya to a few Avalikas (Kaudra-bhava-grahaņa ) in the case of the shortest lived man or lower animal.