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## Gunasthana/71
The duration of the Vedakakāla for the third Kṛṣṭi is particularly greater. The duration of the Vedakakāla for the second Kṛṣṭi is particularly greater. The duration of the Vedakakāla for the first Kṛṣṭi is particularly greater. Here, the evidence for "viśeṣa" (particular) is the numerical fraction of the Sṛṣṭi-Vedakakāla. The above statement regarding the actions related to the Kṣapaka-śreṇī, such as Aśvakarṇakaraṇa, Apūrvapradhāk, and Bādarkṛṣṭi, is made in comparison to the Kṣapaka-śreṇī. The special feature is that in the Sapna-śreṇī, Aśvakarṇakaraṇa, Apūrvapradhāk, and Bādarkṛṣṭikaraṇa do not occur, but in the second division of the Lobha-Vedakakāla, by repelling the Pradeśapuja from the previous competitors, it creates subtle Kṛṣṭis, which are infinitely inferior to the Anantaguṇī, like the most despicable creeper, in the opposite direction of the Saptasvara.
The name of this second division is Kṛṣṭikaraṇakāla, because here it performs Kṛṣṭis by refracting the competitor-related Anu-bhāga. Therefore, this meaningful name Kṛṣṭikaraṇakāla is given to the second division of the Lobha-Vedakakāla. Just as in the Kṣapaka-śreṇī, by performing (Bādra) Kṛṣṭis, it completely refracts all the previous and ultimate previous competitors and establishes only (Bādra) Kṛṣṭis, such a thing does not happen here, because without abandoning their own nature, all the previous competitors remain in that state, and from among all the competitors, it creates subtle Kṛṣṭis by repelling a fraction of the Dravya, which is numerically insignificant, from the Anu-bhāga, which is numerically insignificant, of a single competitor, in the Upasama-śreṇī.
In comparison to the Alpabahutva-Tīva-Manda Anu-bhāga related to the Tīva-Manda Anu-bhāga, the inferior Kṛṣṭi is insignificant, the second Kṛṣṭi is infinitely greater than that, and the third Kṛṣṭi is infinitely greater than that. In this way, the series continues in a Tantraguṇīta-śreṇī form until the final Kṛṣṭi.
**The Prefiguration of the End of the Kṛṣṭikaraṇakāla:**
When the Prāvalī and Pratyāvalī are absent in the Kṛṣṭikaraṇakāla, the Prāgāla and Pratyāgāla become extinguished. When one moment remains in the Pratyāvalī, the inferior state of the mind's agitation, Udeeranā, arises. At that time, all the Pradeśa related to the competitor-related Lobha becomes pacified, but the Kṛṣṭi-related Pradeśa remains unpacified, because the pacification of the Kṛṣṭis is seen in the time of the Sūkṣma-Samparāya. This is the final time-related Bādra-Samparāyika opinion, because here the end of the Anivṛttikaraṇakāla is seen.
Thus, the statement regarding the previous and non-previous competitors and the Bādra-Sūkṣma-Kṛṣṭi related to the Kṣapa-śreṇī, and the previous competitors and the Sūkṣma-Kṛṣṭi related to the Upasama-śreṇī, is complete.
**Tenth Gunasthāna - The Nature of Sūkṣma-Samparāya:**
"Dhudakkosu bhayavattāṁ hodi jahā suhamārāyasaṁjutaṁ | Evam suhamaka-sānō suhama-sarāgōtti raṇāvadhyō || 56 ||"
**References:**
* J.D.P. 13, p. 315
* K.P. 37-8462, J.V.P. 135.307
* J.G.P. 13, p. 318-316, "Asāsūtra 2583"