Disclaimer: This translation does not guarantee complete accuracy, please confirm with the original page text.
## Positional Category - Explanation of Fewness and Manyness
**382.** Just as there are many positional categories for the karma of the deluded, so too are there many positional categories for the remaining karma.
**383.** In the case of an unliberated being, the karma that is equal to the superior positional category of the karma of the deluded, but not equal to the inferior positional category, is many in number.
**143**
**Verse 22**
These are not few, but are even less than the extreme agitation. Because, when the extreme agitation falls simultaneously, there are no alternatives in terms of their positional categories. Therefore, one should know that there are as many positional categories of right faith and right knowledge as there are moments and as many as the measure of the extreme agitation, which is less than seventy kodi kodi oceans of time.
**Churnisutra:** Just as the positional categories of the karma of delusion have been explained, so too should the positional categories of the remaining karma, that is, the sixteen karmas and the nine nokkhamas, be explained. || 382 ||
Now, to explain the fewness and manyness of the positional categories that arise from the above statement, the Uttar Sutra says:
**Churnisutra:** In the case of an unliberated being, the karma that is equal to the superior positional category of the karma of the deluded, but not equal to the inferior positional category, is many in number. || 383 ||
**Special Meaning:** The reason why there are many positional categories of karma in an unliberated being, even though they are equal to the superior positional category of the karma of the deluded, but not equal to the inferior positional category, is that there are more inferior positional categories than superior ones. An example of this is as follows: A one-sense being, having attained the superior positional category of the four-sevenths (3/7) of the ocean-measure of karmas, which is less than countless parts of a moment, spent the time of bondage and transferred the said superior positional category of karmas to the nine nokkhamas. Then, his positional categories of both karmas and nokkhamas are found to be similar. Now, we will explain the vastness of the inferior positional categories: When a one-sense being has the inferior positional category of karmas, he begins to bind the three nokkhamas of male-sex, laughter, and pleasure together. From the time he begins to bind them until the countable part of the time of binding laughter and pleasure has passed, the time of binding male-sex ends. And after that time, he begins to bind female-sex along with laughter and pleasure. In this way, beginning to bind, the time of binding male-sex...
The text in the copper-plate manuscript reads "jaṇegaṭiṭ disatakamma". However, the Jayadhavala commentary does not support this reading. Therefore, the reading should be "jahaṇṇaga". (Deso p. 5115019)