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X V1.3.621 informs that beings take in 1/asankhyāta of matter particles (pudgala ahāra) and purge out 1/ananta of them. It continues to say that no one is able to sit... sleep on the purged matter particles, for they are intangible. XVI.4.571 offers an idea that even by spending kotikoti years, H cannot exhaust as much karma as an annaglayaka monk (i.e., a monk who eats food cooked during the previous day at an improper time, as he is unable to wait for the right time) can exhaust it within a short fast. The reason forthcoming is that karmic bondage of H is too tight (gadha) to effect nirjarā easily just as an old man cannot cut a ko'samba tree with a blunt axe, but karmic bondage of monks is loose enough ('slista) to effect nirjara easily just as a young and strong man can easily cut a 'salmali tree with a sharp axe. Then X v1.7.637 informs that devas exhaust ananta karmic particles during 100 and 500,000 years. Abhayadeva explains them to be punya karma matter particles. According to this text, Vanamäntara devas take 100 years to exhaust these karmic particles ... and Sarvarthasiddhi devas do 500,000 years. All these texts which compute the quantity of karma nirjarā belong to the final canonical stage.
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