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Bhagavai 7:2:36-42
-: 535 :Similarly ..... up to the four-sensed beings in the series of the dandakas
(soul-groups)). 7.39 pamcimdiyatirikkhajoniyā maņussā ya jahā jīvā, vānamamtara-joisiya
vemāniyā jahā neraiyā. The five-sensed subhuman beings and human beings are to be described like the souls in general; the Forest gods, the Luminous gods and the
Empyrean gods are to be described like the infernals. 7.40 eesi ņam bhamte! jīvānam mūlagunapaccakkhānīnam, uttarapacca-kkhānīņam,
apaccakkhānīna ya kayare kayarehimto appā vā? bahuyā vā? tullā vā? visesāhiya vā? goyamā! savvatthovä jīvä mülagunapaccakkhāni, uttarapaccakkhāni asamkhejjagunā, apaccakkhāni anamtagunā. Among these souls, O Lord! viz., the mūlaguņapratyākhyānīs, the uttaraguņapratyākhyānīs and apratyākhyānīs, who are mutually smaller in number, greater in number or equal in number or slightly more in number? Gautama! least in number among these souls are the mūlaguņapratyākhyānis innumerable times of these are the uttaraguņapratyčikhyānīs, infinite times
of these are those who are apratyākhyānīs. 7.41 eesi ņam bhamte! pamcimdiyatirikkhajoniyānam pucchā.
goyamā! savvatthovā pamcimdiyatirikkhajoniyā mūlagunapaccakkhānī, uttarupaccakkhānī asamkhejjagunā, apuccakkhņi asamkhejjaguņā. Among these, O Lord! the query concerning the five-sensed subhuman beings. Gautama! the least in number are the five-sensed subhuman beings who are mūlaguņapratyākhyānis, innumerable times of these are the uttaraguna
pratyākhyānis, innumerable times of them are the apratyākhyānīs. 7.42 eesi ņam bhamte! maņussānam mūlagunapaccakkhānīņam pucchā.
goyamā! savvatthovā manussānam mūlagunapaccakkhānī, uttarapaccakkhāni samkhejjugunā, apaccakkhānī asamkhejjagunā. Among them, O Lord! the same query concerning the human beings who are the mūlagunapratyākhyānīs (etc.)? Gautama! among human beings, the least in number are the mūlagunapratyākhyānis, numerable times of them are the uttaraguņapratyākhyānīs, innumerable times of them are those who are the apratyākhyānīs.
Bhāsya 1. Sūtras 36-42
Among the twenty-eight sub-types of deluding karma, the four sub-types namely, apratyākhyāna kaṣāyas (passions which are the cause of non-renunciation)
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