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## Fifth Karma-Bandha
The regions where death occurs or where rebirth occurs in the previous place of death are not counted. This clarifies that the time taken for the subtle field-pudgala transformation is more than that for the gross. The time for the gross is less, and the time for the subtle is more.
Regarding the subtle field-pudgala transformation, one should know that the lowest state of a living being is said to be an immeasurable part of the Jghana Avagaha Lok. Although a living being cannot stay in one region of the Lokakara, if the father fills a Dasha, then one region of that country is considered as the base. Therefore, if death occurs in any region far from that desired region, it is not counted. However, after an infinite time, when death occurs in the region that follows the desired region, it is counted.
Regarding the acceptance of regions, some Acharyas believe that all the regions of the Lokakasha where death occurs are accepted, and no intermediate desired region is accepted.
Others explain that all the regions of the sky where the deep-rooted living being dies are counted, not just one desired region of the sky in the middle.
- Pravachana Teeka, page 30, Kaspurgal Paravarta - The time in which a living being dies in all the times of the descending and ascending cycles, either in a lesser or non-sequential manner, is called the gross time-pudgala transformation. And if a living being dies in the first time of a desired descending cycle, then dies in the second time near it, then dies in the third time, then...