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## Chapter on the Seven Tika
The first of the ten bondage places of mohaniya karma is the twenty-two prakritis. This is because the three vedas do not bind together, but only one veda binds at a time. Whether it be the purushaveda, striveda, or napumsakaved, and the hasya-rati pair and the arati-shok pair, only one pair binds at a time. Both pairs do not bind together. Therefore, out of the twenty-six prakritis, when two vedas and one pair from the two pairs are reduced, twenty-two prakritis remain. The binding of these twenty-two prakritis occurs in the mithyaishti gunasthan.
_When mithyatva is reduced from the aforementioned twenty-two prakriti bondage place, there are twenty-one prakriti bondage places. This place occurs in the sasadan gunasthan. Because the severance of mithyatva occurs first in the mithyatva gunasthan. Although the napumsakaved does not bind in the second sasadan gunasthan, its fulfillment by the binding of the purushaveda or striveda keeps the number at twenty-one._
The binding of the anantanubandhi kshaya chatushk occurs only up to the second gunasthan. Therefore, when the anantanubandhi chatushk is removed from the twenty-one prakritis, the mixed and avira samyagdristi - third and fourth gunasthan - have seventeen prakriti bondage places. Although the striveda does not bind in these gunasthanas, the binding of the purushaveda there makes it seventeen prakriti bondage places.
The deshaviriti gunasthan has thirteen prakriti bondage places. Because the apratyakhyanavaran kshaya chatushk binds only up to the fourth avira samyagdristi gunasthan. Therefore, when the apratyakhyanavaran chatushk is reduced from the seventeen prakriti bondage places, the fifth deshaviriti gunasthan has thirteen prakriti bondage places.