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Notes : (263)
There may be other alternatives also for these first five chapters maintaining the totality of contents of the whole text. The chapters 4 and 5 are mentioned in verse 23 later.
This verse has the largest amount of commentary covering six Jayadhavalā volumes 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7.
23.
This verse describes the last two chapters of bondage and transition related with deluding Karma. The first point of the verse indicates the configuration, duration, intensity and mass point bonds while the later part indicates the transitions in all these bonding processes. Indirectly, the verse indicates four kinds of karmic bonds in general: (1) configuration or species (2) duration (3) intensity and (4) mass-point. The transition is also four-fold in this way.
However, the transition process could be five-foldly described: (1) succession (2) nomenclature (3) quantity or size (4) describability and (5) chapters. The term 'Sankrana' (transition) is an attributive name. Its description is infinite with respect to meanings and it is numerable with respect to letters and disquisition doors etc. It has been described with respect to own tenets. Its chapters are four-fold.
[This description follows the Dhavalā tradition)
The transition process can be six-foldly posited: (1) Nomenclatural (2) Representational (3) Substantively (4) Spatially (5) Temporally and (6) Modally.
This part of the verse is related with transition of karmic subspecies (Prakrti-sarikrama) rather than basic species. In fact,
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