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## The Fifth Karma Granth
Here, the distinction of *bhuyaskaars* is not explained in relation to different *bandha sthans*. If the distinction is explained in relation to different *bandha sthans*, then there will be many *bhuyaskaars*. For example, sometimes one binds 28 and then binds 31, sometimes one binds 29 and then binds 31, sometimes one binds 1 and then binds 31, sometimes one binds 23 and then binds 28, and sometimes one binds 25 and then binds 28. In this way, there can be many *bhuyaskaars*, more than seven, which are not desirable here. Therefore, the distinction of *bhuyaskaars* is not explained in relation to different *bandha sthans*. In this way, there are six *bhuyaskaars* and *bandha*.
Now, we will explain seven *alpatar bandhas*. When a being, capable of attaining *devagati*, binds 28, 2, 30, or 31 in the *gunasthan* of *apuurvakaran*, and then binds the first *prakritik bandha sthan*, it is called the first *alpatar bandha*. When a being, including *aaharaka* and *tirthankara*, binds 31 and is born in *devlok*, it binds 30 *prakritis* in the first instance, which is called the second *alpatar bandha*. When the same being falls from heaven and takes birth in the human realm, and then binds 29 *prakritis*, including *tirthankara*, capable of attaining *devagati*, it is called the third *alpatar bandha*. When a *tithankara* or a human being, capable of attaining *tithankaragati*, binds the aforementioned 29 *prakritis* and then binds 28 *prakritis* capable of attaining *devagati* due to pure *parinaamas*, it is called the fourth *alpatar bandha*. When a being, having bound 28 *prakritik bandha sthans*, binds 26 *prakritis* capable of becoming *ekendriya* due to *sanklesha parinaamas*, it is called the fifth *alpatar bandha*. When one binds 26 and then binds 25, it is called the sixth *alpatar bandha*. And when one binds 25 and then binds 23, it is called the seventh *alpatar bandha*.