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Gommatsar Karmakanda-121
Just as the seven-term rule was used to determine the eight stages and seven intervals of the eight stages in the statement of the eight stages, the seven-term rule should be used to determine the eight stages and seven intervals of the eight stages in the statement of the obstacles.
Here, the known quantity is the same as in the previously mentioned seven-term rule, which is 343 shalaka, and the result quantity is the number of distinctions in the state of a one-sense being. However, here, the result quantity is the number of distinctions in the obstacle of false belief of a one-sense being from the lowest to the highest, which is an innumerable part of the avli. The desired quantity is 196-28-4-1-2-14-98 shalaka in sequence. Here, the result is multiplied by the desired quantity and divided by the known quantity. The resulting quantity is the number of distinctions in the obstacle in that interval.
In the first three-term rule, the number of distinctions obtained is subtracted from one, and the remainder is subtracted from the highest obstacle of the highest state related to the sufficient bad karma. This gives the number of obstacles related to the bondage of the highest state of the subtle sufficient bad karma.
Again, subtracting the number of distinctions obtained in the second three-term rule from this gives the number of obstacles of the highest state of the insufficient bad karma. Similarly, subtracting the number of distinctions obtained in the third and subsequent three-term rules gives the number of obstacles of that bondage in that state. In this way, the number of distinctions in the bondage and obstacles of a one-sense being, as well as the time, is determined. Similarly, the time of the obstacles from two-sense beings to non-sentient beings should be determined. Now, to know the number of shalaka of the states, the following verse is quoted:
"Maje thovasalaaga hela uvari ch sankhguṇidakama.
Savvajudi sankhguṇā hetuvari sankhguṇamasannitti." ||149||
Meaning: Except for the four distinctions of the state of sentient beings, the number of shalaka of the 24 distinctions of the state of the remaining beings is the least in the middle part. The number of shalaka below the middle part is multiplied by the number, and the number of shalaka above the middle part is also multiplied by the number, whose numerical representation is 4-1-2. Adding these three gives the number of shalaka in the second part below, and multiplying this by the number gives the number of shalaka in the second part above. For example: