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Chapter - Section of the Six Angas
5, 5, 19
The nature of various types of vessels like plates, bowls, pots, and pitchers is earth. The nature of offerings like grains and water is barley and wheat. All these are non-karmic in nature. || 18 ||
The name of the karma that is called "thappa" is "knowledge-obscuring karma" in the eight-fold classification, and "perception-obscuring karma", "painful karma", "delusive karma", "life-span karma", "name karma", "lineage karma", and "obstacle karma" in the eight-fold classification. || 19 ||
How many types of knowledge-obscuring karma are there? || 20 ||
There are five types of knowledge-obscuring karma: "belief-based knowledge-obscuring karma", "scriptural knowledge-obscuring karma", "clairvoyance knowledge-obscuring karma", "mind-reading knowledge-obscuring karma", and "omniscience knowledge-obscuring karma". || 21 ||
The karma called "belief-based knowledge-obscuring karma" is either four-fold, twenty-four-fold, twenty-eight-fold, or thirty-two-fold. || 22 ||
The four types are: "grasping-obscuring karma", "desire-obscuring karma", "aversion-obscuring karma", and "holding-obscuring karma". || 23 ||
The karma called "grasping-obscuring karma" is of two types: "meaning-grasping-obscuring karma" and "expression-grasping-obscuring karma". || 24 ||
The karma called "meaning-grasping-obscuring karma" is "thappa". || 25 ||
The karma called "expression-grasping-obscuring karma" is of four types: "hearing-sense-expression-grasping-obscuring karma", "smell-sense-expression-grasping-obscuring karma", "taste-sense-expression-grasping-obscuring karma", and "touch-sense-expression-grasping-obscuring karma". || 26 ||
The karma called "meaning-grasping-obscuring karma" is of six types: "sight-sense-meaning-grasping-obscuring karma", "hearing-sense-meaning-grasping-obscuring karma", "smell-sense-meaning-grasping-obscuring karma", "taste-sense-meaning-grasping-obscuring karma", "touch-sense-meaning-grasping-obscuring karma", and "mind-sense-meaning-grasping-obscuring karma". || 27 ||