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Knowledge-obscuring
Intuition-obscuring
Feeling-producing
Belief and conduct-obscuring
Age-determining
Personality-determining
Status-determining
Power-hindering
OUTLINE OF KARMA IN JAINISM
Duration
Total
Bandha
5
9
2
26
87
4
67
2
5
120
Udaya
5
9
2
28
4
67
2
5
122
Udırana
5
9
2
28
4
67
2
5
122
Satta
5
9
2
28
4
103
2
5
In satta all the prakrtis exist In udaya the number is only 122 because the fifteen bindings and the five sanghatanas are not included as they are then thought to exst implicit in the five bodies The colour, odour, taste, and touch are only reckoned as four species instead of twenty In udirara also the same species are counted In bandha the number is 120, since the two mohanya karmas. viz., samyaktva and misra cannot be bound separately because they are purified condition of mithyatva. Therefore, they must be subtracted from the 122 species of udaya and udirana, so that the total number in bandha is 120
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After having considered the nature of karmas we, now, proceed to their duration First, let us understand the scheme of the division of time as conceived by the Jamas "The lowest unit of time is the samaya. Innumerable samayas form an avalika 16,777,216 avalikas equal one muhurta (48 minutes of European time) The number Thirty muhurtas make one day Out of the days are formed weeks of years can be expressed in words up to a number containing 77 cyphers Beyond that, it is asankhyeya An innumerable quantity of years is called palyopama, 10 katakoti (1,000,000,000,000,000) of palyopamas are one sagaropama 10 kotakoti of
1 Sukhial: Karma-vipaka, p 111
