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Gommatsar Karmakanda-191
When the number of inferior competitors increases simultaneously, there is a higher position. From the first inferior position, an innumerable fraction of the number of inferior competitors is greater in the second position. In the second position, there is no increase in the arrangement of competitors, but the competitors in both positions are the same. Therefore, when it is said that the competitors related to the inferior position are few, it means that when the inferior position is multiplied by the number of inferior competitors, they are fewer than the inferior competitors of the superior position.
By dividing the number of inferior positions, which is an innumerable fraction of the series, by the number of projections, and then dividing the inferior position into equal parts, one obtains the number of projections for each part. Now, taking one projection and adding it to the inferior position as a counter-balance, the second position is obtained. Taking the second projection and adding it to the second position as a counter-balance, the third position is obtained. Subsequently, taking the third projection and adding it to the third position as a counter-balance, the fourth position is obtained. In this way, the division should be continued until all the projections are included, and then a position with double the increase is produced.
The number of projections related to the inferior position, which is an innumerable fraction of the series and a pair of created pairs, when divided by the number of competitors in the inferior position, only an innumerable fraction of an angula is obtained as the number of inferior competitors for one projection. This projection exists because there is no increase or decrease. It is said that in this projection, when the inferior position is added as a counter-balance, the number of indivisible sections related to the competitors in the second position is greater. It is said that from these innumerable fractions of an angula of inferior competitors, no new competitor is produced beyond the ultimate competitor, because the indivisible sections of the ultimate competitor are found to be innumerable times less than the indivisible sections of the projection. Therefore, it should be understood that these projection indivisible sections are divided into the regions of living beings in the world according to their nature.
Now, leaving out six intervals, the positions of living beings from the inferior position to the superior position are said to be:
Sarisayamenavari, Seḍhiasankejjabhag Ṭhāṇāṇi.
Caḍidekkekkamupuvvam, Phaṭṭayamiha Jayade Cayado. ||231||
Meaning: When one climbs up an innumerable fraction of the series of positions above positions of equal size, one new competitor is produced.
1. Dhavala Pu. 10.482
2. Dhavala Pu. 10 p. 489.
3. Dhavala Pu. 2 p. 484-85