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## Gommatasara Karmakanda-397
The nature that attains the cessation of bondage by taking refuge in the bondage of the opposing nature is called **Santarbandhi**. This is said because the **Santarbandhi** natures are seen to be inseparable from the bondage of the opposing nature. In reality, the nature whose cessation of bondage is seen in the second time after being bound in the first time is the **Santarbandhi** nature. The nature whose bondage period is even as short as an **antarmuhurta** is the **Nirantabandhi** nature, one should understand. It is also said elsewhere:
"Those whose bondage is only for a short period of time, from the beginning of the time to the **antarmuhurta** and not beyond, are **Santarbandhi**. Those whose bondage is within the **antarmuhurta** but with a difference in the characteristics of the interruption are **Santarbandhi**, because of the derivation of the word. Those whose bondage is interrupted after the **antarmuhurta** are **Santarbandhi**, this is the meaning of the word. Those who are bound continuously from the **antarmuhurta** to the **narantar** are **Nirantabandhi**. The bondage of those whose interruption is within the **antarmuhurta** is **Nirantabandhi**, because of the derivation of the word. Those whose bondage is uninterrupted within the **antarmuhurta** are **Nirantabandhi**."
Now, in response to the first three questions out of the above nine questions, the names of the natures are given in two verses:
"Devagati-chatuṣka, āhārakadvika, ayasaskīrti and devāyu, these eight natures have their cessation of bondage after the cessation of their arising. Mithyātva, ātapa, manuşyagatyānupūrvī, sthāvarādi-chatuṣka, sajvalana-lobha, without these fifteen kṣayās, bhaya-jugupsā, hāsya-rati, ekaindriyādi-chatuṣka-jāti and puruṣaved, these thirty-one natures have their cessation of bondage and arising simultaneously. The remaining eighty-one natures, from jñānāvaraṇa onwards, have their cessation of bondage and arising before the cessation of their arising."
**Special Meaning:**
Question 1: Which are the natures whose cessation of arising occurs before the cessation of their bondage?
Answer: Devagati, Devagatyānupūrvī, Vaikriyika-śarīra-Vaikriyika-anopāṅga, Āhārak-śarīra-Āhārak-aṅgopāṅga, Ayasaskīrti and Devāyu, these eight natures have their cessation of arising before the cessation of their bondage.
Question 2: Which are the natures whose cessation of bondage occurs before the cessation of their arising?