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Gommatasara Karmakanda-440
Nine, six, and four, these are the binding places of the Darshanavarana karma.
You should know that there are four types of binding: Bhujakara, Alpantara, Avasthita, and Avaktāvya. ||459||
**Meaning:** There are three binding places for the Darshanavarana karma: first, nine types of karma, second, six types of karma without Nidra, Sthana, and Grdhi, and third, four types of karma without Nidra and Prachala. These four types of binding are Bhujakara, Alpantara, Avasthita, and Avaktāvya.
**Special Meaning:** When a being descends from the Upshama श्रेणी, it binds four types of Darshanavarana karma in the second part of the A-purvakarana guna-sthana, and then binds six types of karma in the first part of the A-purvakarana guna-sthana. This is called a Bhujakara binding. When a being binds six types of karma in the Pramatta, Desha-samyata, Asamyata, and Misra guna-sthana, and then attains Mithyatva-avastha, and then attains the first Upshama Samyak-drishti Sasadan guna-sthana, it binds nine types of karma. This is another Bhujakara binding. Thus, there are two types of Bhujakara binding. When a being with Sa-tishaya Mithya-drishti, facing the first Upshama Samyak-tva, binds nine types of karma in the final time of the Anivriti-karana parinaama, and then binds six types of karma in the next time, being Asamyata, Desha-samyata, or Apramatta, this is called an Alpantara binding. Similarly, when a being binds six types of karma in the final time of the first part of the Upshama and Kshapaka A-purvakarana guna-sthana, and then binds four types of karma in the first time of the second part, this is another Alpantara binding. Thus, there are two types of Alpantara binding. When a being with Mithya-drishti or Sasadan Samyak-drishti binds nine types of karma, six types of karma from the Misra guna-sthana to the first part of the A-purvakarana guna-sthana, and four types of karma from the second part of the A-purvakarana guna-sthana to the Sukhma-samparaya guna-sthana, and then binds the same number of types of karma in the next time, this is called an Avasthita binding. There are three types of Avasthita binding. A being in the Upshanta-kshaya guna-sthana does not bind Darshanavarana karma, but when it descends from the Upshama श्रेणी, it binds four types of karma in the first time of the Sukhma-samparaya, and a bound-life-span, death-making deva, being Asamyata, binds six types of karma. This is called an Avaktāvya binding. Thus, there are two types of Avaktāvya binding. This is explained further:
Nine is the binding of Sasadan, six is the first part of A-purvakarana,
Four is the final time of Sukhma-samparaya, the binding of Kshaya. ||460||
**Meaning:** The Darshanavarana karma binds nine types of karma up to the Sasadan guna-sthana, six types of karma up to the first part of the A-purvakarana guna-sthana, and four types of karma from the second part of the A-purvakarana guna-sthana to the final time of the Sukhma-samparaya guna-sthana.