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Afterwards all the seven samudghātas are considered from the standpoints of avagähna (extension or pervasiveness) and sparśana (touch-on-all-the-directions or volume). That is, we are told as to how much extension and volume a living being can possibly assume while performing this or that type of samudghata. Again, we are told as to how long a living being, having assumed them, can retain them (2153-72). Moreover, it is calculated as to how many activities (kriya) a living being can have while performing this or that type of samudghāta (2153 ff.). At this juncture there occurs a detailed description of kevalisamudghāta (2168-2175). Here we are told that a kevalt cannot become siddha (liberated soul) so long as he performs activities. Hence, he stops the mental, vocal and bodily activities in due order and becomes absolutely free from all sorts of activities. And as soon as he becomes free from all sorts of activities he becomes a siddha. It is so because he does not acquire new karmas (as the cause of the aquisition of new karmas is activity) and at the same time he dissociates gradually the accumulated ones. When he attains siddhahood his cognition is sākāra (determinate) (2175). At the end of the text there occurs discussion about the nature of a siddha (2176).
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