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४५७] त्रयस्त्रिंश अध्ययन
सचित्र उत्तराध्ययन सूत्री
The word granthika-satva means that the knot of attachment-detachment can not be broken by any means of abhavya souls. In other words it is eternal. Therefore abhavya souls are called granthika or granthikasatva (souls).
Gathā 18-Six directions are-East, West, North, South, Zenith and Nadir. The soul remaining in those space-points the karma-matter of the same space points stick to it by the thought greasiness of attachment etc. The karma-atoms of different space-points never come and stick to that soul.
The karma-atoms of four angular cardinal points also bound to souls; but these angular cardinal points of directions amalgamated in four main directions, so these are not enumerated separately.
This rule of karma-bondage of six directions is settled keeping in view five-sensed souls, but regarding one-sensed souls, there is description of three, four, five and six directions.
Knowledge obstructing etc., all the karmas are bound with all the pradeśas which are innumerable, of soul; not at particular pradeśas. The pradeśas of soul are only imaginary-imagined by intellect; these are not joining and separating like the atoms of matter.
Gatha 19-20-Shortest duration of emotion evoking karma is told less than 48 minutes (antarmuhurta) in these couplets; while other holy scriptures and dogmatic authoritative texts described it of twelve muhurtas (576 minutes). At this point commentators say-What is the purport of this, we do not know-tadabhiprāyam na vidmah.
(-Courtesy-Uttaradhyayana sutra - Sadhvi Candanäji)
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