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Tattvarthasutra
[9. 8-17 3. Classification of Authority - In which subtle attachment (greed) has very little probability, in that subtle attachment named quality stage, and in the quality stages of upashantamoh and kshinamoh, only fourteen sufferings are possible. They are hunger, thirst, cold, heat, biting pain, conduct, wisdom, ignorance, loss, bed, killing, disease, touch of grass, and excrement. The remaining eight are not possible because they are born of delusion, and there is an absence of delusion in the eleventh and twelfth quality stages. Although in the tenth quality stage there is delusion, it is so slight that it can be considered as non-existent. For this reason, in this quality stage, it is mentioned only about the possibility of fourteen sufferings, without mentioning the possibility of eight sufferings born of delusion.
In the thirteenth and fourteenth quality stages, only eleven sufferings are possible. They are hunger, thirst, cold, heat, regional pain, conduct, bed, killing, disease, touch of grass, and excrement. The remaining eleven are caused by destructive karma, and they are not possible in these quality stages due to the absence of destructive karmas.
In the ninth quality stage, where there is particularly a possibility of attachment (kashaya), there are twenty-two sufferings because all karmas causing sufferings are present there. By stating the possibility of twenty-two sufferings in the ninth quality stage, it naturally follows that the same number of sufferings are possible in the preceding sixth and other quality stages. 10-12.
4. Statement regarding Causes - A total of four karmas are considered to be the causes of sufferings.
1. There is a difference of opinion regarding the sufferings in these two quality stages between the Digambara and Svetambara traditions, which stems from whether or not to consider the omniscient as a mere eater. Therefore, even while accepting the 'Ekadash Jine Sutra' in the Digambara exegetical texts, it appears that they twist the interpretation. There is not one but two interpretations given, and it seems clear that they follow the communal differences afterwards. According to the first interpretation, it is meant that the omniscient (Jin) has eleven sufferings (born of experiencing karma), but due to the absence of delusion, these sufferings such as hunger are not in the form of feeling, and thus are merely transactional sufferings. According to the second interpretation, by emphasizing the word 'no', it is meant that even if the experiencing karmas are present in the omniscient, the eleven sufferings such as hunger do not exist as they are not obstructive due to the absence of delusion.
2. The Digambara exegetical text does not consider the word 'badrasampraya' here as a noun but as an adjective, from which they derive the meanings of the sixth and other four quality stages.