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Gommatsar Karmakanda-154
Know the measure of the atoms of those aforementioned substances to be the same as the substance. Know the measure of the substance related to the section to be as much as the measure obtained by multiplying infinity by itself three times. Know the loss of merit to be as much as the measure obtained by multiplying infinity by itself twice. Know the double loss of merit to be twice that. The measure of the loss of merit of various types is infinity. Write 2 in the column for the loss of merit of various types and multiply it by itself. The product obtained is the mutually reciprocal quantity. The measure of this mutually reciprocal quantity is the share for calculating the measure of the all-destroying substance. This is explained as follows:
The substance of the four, namely, knowledge-obscuring, etc., is the measure of the substance of the country-destroying, along with its all-destroying substance, without the portion of pure knowledge. (That is, these country-destroying substances have their own country-destroying substance, as well as an all-destroying substance. That all-destroying substance is less than the portion of the knowledge-obscuring, not all of it. In this way, the country-destroying and all-destroying substances together constitute the substance of the knowledge-obscuring, etc., which is) the measure of one-eighth of the time that has been established for a long time. Dividing this (substance) by one less than the mutually reciprocal quantity gives the measure of the substance in the final loss of merit of the rock portion. Afterwards, going down, one by one, the loss of merit, the substance becomes double, double, until it reaches the first loss of merit of the wood portion. In the infinite portions of the wood portion, one portion (country-destroying) without the remaining many portions related to the substance, in their first loss of merit, the substance of the extreme loss of merit of the rock portion is multiplied by half of infinity (half of the mutually reciprocal quantity), as appropriate. The measure of the substance obtained is the measure of the substance. In this way, know the number of losses of merit from the extreme loss of merit of the rock portion to the first loss of merit of the many portions of the wood portion as the number of terms. Multiplying the number of terms minus one by two gives the infinite measure of the mutually reciprocal quantity related to the all-destroying. Know half of it as the multiplier here. Adding the measures of the substances of all these losses of merit gives the number of atoms related to the all-destroying. Therefore, the mutually reciprocal quantity is called the share for obtaining the all-destroying substance.
The illustration is as follows:
| Rock portion | Rock portion | Bone portion | Bone portion | Wood portion | Wood portion's extreme loss of merit of the all-destroying | Other loss of merit | Extreme loss of merit | Other loss of merit | Extreme loss of merit | First portion's substance | Substance of the substance | Substance of the substance | Substance of the substance | Substance of the loss of merit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 36 | 288 | 144 | 160 | 176 | 320 | 352 | 384 | 192 | | | | | | |