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Verse 31
Ācārya Umasvami's Tattvārthasūtra
पञ्चनवद्वयष्टाविंशतिचतुर्द्विचत्वारिंशद्विपञ्चभेदा यथाक्रमम् ॥
(8-5)
The subdivisions are five, nine, two, twenty-eight, four, fortytwo, two, and five kinds respectively. Ācārya Pujyapada's Sarvārthasiddhi It is contended that 'secondary must be mentioned in the sutra in order to indicate that the subdivisions are so many. It is not necessary, as it is implied from what is left over. First the eight main divisions of type-bondage have been mentioned. So it must be understood that this sutra refers to the secondary divisions or subdivisions left over. The word 'kinds' is taken with five etc. respectively. Knowledge-obscuring is of five, perception-or-intuition-obscuring of nine, feeling-producing of two, deluding of twenty-eight, life of four, name of forty-two, status of two, and obstructive of five, kinds.
Jain, S.A., Reality, p. 220-221.
The nature of influx (āsrava) To begin with āsrava, the first thing to grasp is that there can be no bondage of pure mental abstractions, or purely wordy concepts; the word signifies some kind of real fetters, not, indeed, consisting in chains of iron, but of some very subtle and fine kind of matter. It is well to know that nothing but force, in some form or other, is capable of exercising restraint or of holding living beings in the condition of captivity, and that no kind of force is conceivable apart from a substance of some kind or other. The bondage of soul must, therefore, be the bondage of matter, the only substance which is known to enter into interaction with souls, and the obtainment of freedom must
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