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104
Kasaya Pahuda Sutta
[3. The minimum and maximum duration of the sixteen kasayas and the three vedanas is one samaya. 78. The minimum and maximum duration of the six nokasayas is less than a muhurta. 79. The interval. 80. The minimum interval of the sixteen kasayas of mithyatva is less than a muhurta. 81. The maximum interval is of countless pudgala-parivartas. 82. Similarly for the nine nokasayas, except that the minimum is one samaya. 83. The minimum and maximum duration of the two prakritis of samyaktva and sammamithyatva is one samaya, because in the very next moment after the arising of the minimum duration substance, the destruction of these prakritis occurs.]
The commentary states:
Now, the interval of the maximum duration of the moha (deluding) prakritis is being told. The minimum interval of the jivas possessing the maximum duration of the sixteen kasayas like mithyatva (false belief) and anantanubandhi (unending attachment) is less than a muhurta.
The special meaning is that for the jiva binding the maximum duration of the seventy-seven moha prakritis, leaving aside the maximum duration binding, by binding the non-maximum duration up to less than a muhurta, and then again binding the maximum duration of the said prakritis, the minimum interval is found to be less than a muhurta. The implication here is that the intervening non-maximum duration binding time is called the interval of those prakritis.
Here, a doubt may arise as to why the minimum interval of the mithyatva prakrti and the sixteen kasayas is not of one samaya. The solution is that without the jiva reverting after binding the maximum duration, the binding of the maximum duration is impossible.
The commentary further states:
The maximum interval of the mithyatva and the sixteen kasayas, these seventy-seven moha prakritis, is of countless pudgala-parivartas.
The special meaning is that the sanjhi pancendriya jiva, who has reverted after binding the maximum duration of the said prakritis, spends time up to the last moment of its non-maximum duration binding. Thereafter, being born among the ekendriya jivas, it wanders for countless pudgala-parivartas, and then, being born again among the trasa pancendriya-paryaptas, becomes paryapta, attains the maximum affliction, and then the maximum duration binding of the said prakritis is of a number equal to the 1/asankhyatva part of the avali of that jiva.
Similarly, the interval of the nine nokasayas should be known. The special point is that their minimum interval is of one samaya. The minimum and maximum interval of the two prakritis of samyaktva and sammamithyatva is of one muhurta.