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## Chapter 58: Explanation of the Meaning of Pradesh-Samkrame and Vidhyat-Samkrame
**399** The Pal-Upama, through one Antar-Muhurta, carves out an infinite number of parts of the Sthiti-Khandas. This means it extracts them. The act of carving or extracting is called Utkiर्ण (Utkiर्ण) or Udvelan. Again, through the second Antar-Muhurta, it carves out an infinite number of parts of the Sthiti-Khandas. Similarly, through the third, fourth, and subsequent Antar-Muhurtas, it continues to carve out Sthiti-Khandas of that measure. This process continues until the infinite part of the Pal-Upama time. During this time, it extracts both the aforementioned natures, meaning it completely eliminates them. These successive Sthiti-Khandas, occurring in each Antar-Muhurta, although all are of an infinite part of the Pal-Upama, are progressively less significant. This is a description in relation to Sthiti-Samkrame. In relation to Pradesh-Samkrame, the subsequent Sthiti-Khandas have progressively more specific and distinct Karma-Pradeshas than the previous Sthiti-Khandas.
The method of carving out the Pradeshas is as follows: In the first time, it carves out a small number of Pradeshas. In the second time, it carves out an infinite number of times more Pradeshas than the first. In the third time, it carves out an infinite number of times more Pradeshas than the second. This process continues until the end of each Antar-Muhurta.
There is also a specific order for where it deposits the Pradeshas after carving them out. This order is that some are deposited below in their own place, and some are deposited in a different place. The explanation is this: In the first Sthiti-Khandas, in the first time, it deposits a small number of Pradeshas in a different place, meaning in a different nature. However, it deposits an infinite number of times more Pradeshas in their own place. Due to this, in the second time, it deposits an infinite number of times more Pradeshas in their own place, but it deposits a significantly smaller number of Pradeshas in a different place than the first time. This process continues until the end of each Antar-Muhurta.
This process of Udvelan-Samkrame continues until the penultimate Sthiti-Khandas of both the aforementioned natures. In the final Sthiti-Khandas, both Guna-Samkrame and Sarva-Samkrame occur. Thus, this is the nature of Udvelan-Samkrame. Now, we will explain the nature of Vidhyat-Samkrame.
The Pradesh-Samkrame of those Karmas that do not bind due to Guna-Pratyay or Bhav-Pratyay is called Vidhyat-Samkrame. The binding due to the Guna-Sthanas is called Guna-Pratyay binding. For example, the binding of the sixteen natures like Mithyatva, etc., occurs due to Mithyatva, but not beyond that. The binding of the twenty-five natures like Ananta-Anubandhi, etc., occurs until the second Guna-Sthana, but not beyond that. Similarly, you should understand the same for subsequent Guna-Sthanas. These natures, whose binding is discontinued, do not bind in the higher Guna-Sthanas. Therefore, the Pradesh-Sattva of these natures, which undergoes a transition to other natures, is called Vidhyat-Samkrame in the Agamas.
Those natures whose binding is possible in the Guna-Sthanas like Mithyatva, etc., but which do not bind due to Bhav-Pratyay, meaning due to the specific Paryayas like Naraka, Deva, etc.,