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[Primary] This section addresses various questions that arise regarding the theory of karma from the 23rd to the 27th chapter. A clear and concise solution is provided here from the perspective of the four types of karma-bandha. The binding of dravya-karmas is categorized into four types: prakriti-bandha, sthiti-bandha, pradesha-bandha, and anubhava-bandha. The transformation of bound karma-paramanu into a covering for the soul's qualities like knowledge, etc., and the generation of different types of nature in those karma-pudgalas is prakriti-bandha. The duration of the time of karma-vipak (karma-phala) (the time limit of jadhanya-utkrista) is sthiti-bandha. The binding of the group of acquired pudgala-paramanu with the soul's pradeshas in a lesser or greater degree in the form of karma is pradesha-bandha. This determines the number of karma-paramanu (karma-pradeshas) with different natures, and the intensity-mildness, etc., of the power of the acquired pudgala-paramanu to bear fruit in the form of karma is anubhava-bandha. It is natural for some questions to arise regarding karma, and these chapters provide solutions to them. How many are the mool-karmas? How many are their uttarabhedas? How and for what reasons does the soul bind with karmas? How does the power to bear fruit arise in karmas? Which karma remains attached to the soul for the least and the most amount of time? For how long does the karma attached to the soul remain incapable of bearing fruit? Can the fixed time of vipak be changed? If so, how, and by what soul-transformations? At the time of the binding of one karma, what other karmas can be bound or experienced? At the time of the experience of one karma, what other karmas are experienced? In this way, a detailed and logical description is given of the various questions that arise in relation to the states of bandha, udaya, udirana, and satta, etc. * Firstly, in the first uddeśaka of the twenty-third chapter, 'karma-prakriti-pada', the theory of karma is discussed through five doors. The first door deals with the number of mool karma-prakritis and their arrangement in the twenty-four dandakavarti jivas. The second door explains how samuccaya jivas and dandakavarti jivas bind eight karmas. The third door explains how one or many samuccaya jivas and twenty-four dandakavarti jivas bind the eight karmas of jnana-avaranīya, etc., due to two reasons: raga and dvesha (which include the four kṣayās of krodha, etc.). The fourth door explains how samuccaya jivas or twenty-four dandakavarti jivas experience which karmas in the eight karmas of jnana-avaranīya, etc., in relation to unity and multiplicity. After this, the fifth door, katividha-anubhava, explains in detail how the jiva's bound, sprusht, bound-sprusht, sanchit, chit, upacit, apaka-prapta, vipak-prapta, phala-prapta, udaya-prapta, krit, nishpadit, parinamit, svat: or paratah udirit, ubhwayat: udirana are the vipak or phala of which karmas in relation to motion, position, and bhava. In the second uddeśaka of the twenty-third chapter, the mool and uttar-prakritis of the prushta karmas are first described. Then, the eight karmas of jnana-avaranīya, etc., are described (including their bhed-bhedas).