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Duck
The sky is called a field. The natures that arise in the field are called field-arising (kṣetravipakinī). Although all natures arise in relation to substance, field, time, and emotion, the one that is primarily involved is named after its primary role. The reason for considering the anupūrvīs as field-arising is that they occur in the field. When a living being (jīva) moves for rebirth, the anupūrvīs show their arising (vipaka) in the interval field of the disintegration movement (vigraha-gati). They keep the living being facing its place of origin.
After explaining the field-arising natures, we now discuss the living being-arising (jīvavipaki) and the karma-arising (bhavitavipaki) natures. The living being-arising and karma-arising natures...
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...1 The Digambara and Svetambara sects both consider the anupūrvīs as field-arising. However, they differ in their views on their nature. In the Svetambara sect, when a living being moves to take on a new body after abandoning one, the anupūrvīs move according to the karma series and take the living being to its place of origin in its respective series. The arising of the anupūrvīs is described as "the arising of the tail in hell." (First Karma Text, verse 42)
However, in the Digambara sect, the anupūrvīs maintain the shape of the living being in the disintegration movement, after abandoning the old body and before taking on a new one, similar to the previous body. And its movement is either straight, curved, or both.