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Gommatasara Karmakanda-50
Further, the specific rule of the bondage of the Tirthankara nature is stated:
**Padhamuvasamiye Samme Sesatiye Avirdaadhichattari... Tiththayarbandhaparambhaya Nara Kevalidugante.** ||13||
**Meaning:** In the first Upasama Samyaktv, and in the remaining three, the second Upasama Samyaktv, Kshayopa-samik Samyaktv and Kshayik Samyaktv, from the state of Asanyata to the state of Apramatta Gunasthan, only a human being initiates the bondage of the Tirthankara nature at the feet of a Kevali or Shruta Kevali.
**Special Meaning:** The reason for separating the first Upasama Samyaktv here is that, "since its duration is an Antarmuhurta, the sixteen Karana Bhavanas cannot arise in this Samyaktv, therefore, there is no bondage of the Tirthankara nature in this Samyaktv," some have opined.
**"Only a human being initiates the bondage of the Tirthankara nature,"** this statement implies that beings of other Gatis cannot initiate the bondage of the Tirthankara nature, because they lack the specific materials. And the bondage of the Tirthankara nature occurs in the remaining three Gatis, excluding the Tiryanch Gati. The peak duration of this bondage is eight years plus an Antarmuhurta, and the minimum duration is two Koti Purvas and thirty-three Sagaras. The rule is that this bondage begins only at the feet of the two Kevalis, because the necessary Parinam Vishuddhi for initiating the bondage of the Tirthankara nature cannot occur elsewhere.
Here, the bondage of the Tirthankara nature is described from the fourth Gunasthan to the seventh Gunasthan. And in the special meaning of the 92nd verse, the bondage of the Tirthankara nature is stated from the fourth Gunasthan to the sixth part of the A-purvakarana Gunasthan. The implication here is that the bondage of the Tirthankara nature begins from the fourth Gunasthan to the seventh Gunasthan, but continues until the sixth part of the eighth Gunasthan. Now, the bondage-cessation in the Gunasthanas is stated:
**Solas Panavis Nabham Das Chaur Chakkeka Bandhavochhinna... Dug Tisa Chaduruvve Pan Solesa Jogino Ekko.** ||94||
**1.** The reason is that in the final birth in which a being becomes a Tirthankara, he remains in the Tirthankara state until the duration of the Varsha Prithaktva, according to the rule, and performs activities like Vihar, etc. (Dhaval 12/494, Dhaval 7/57, Shatkhand Parishilaan... etc.) And the bondage of the Tirthankara nature does not occur in the state of the Tirthankara nature's emergence. Therefore, the duration of the Varsha Prithaktva has been reduced.