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Explanatory Note to the Table
The total number of sub-classes is 148. Of these there are 26 sub-classes which are included in some others of which they are a sort of inseparable accident, and therefore really only 122 distinct sub-classes can come into action at a time. The 26 are as follows: The body (Sarira) karma is of five kinds : Physicai, Fluid, Assimilative,
olecular bondage (Bandhana) and interfusion (Samghâta) is of five kinds each. But thc bondage and the fusion are entirely dependant on and associated with the five bodies. Therefore these ten may be considered as non-distinct (Avinâ-bhâvi).
The touch, taste, smell, and colour sub-classes are respectively 8, 5, 2, and 5 in number. But each class has a distinct activity, i.e. there are only four distinct sub-classes from this viewpoint. Thus 16 may be considered as non-distinct.
Deducting the above 10 and 16 i. e. 26 from 148, we get 122 sub-classes.
(1) Out of these 122 distinct sub-classes, two i.e. Clouded-Right-Belief and Mixed-Right-and-Wrong-Belief sub-classes cannot be bound in the first stage of wrong-belief, where the soul has and can have the bondage by the Wrong-Belief-Deluding Karma alone. Thus the number of bindable subclasses becomes 120. But the soul in this stage cannot possibly have bondage of Sarira or an Âhâraka Assimilative-body, Âhâraka-Ângopánga or Assimilative limbs and minor limbs, nor the Tirthamkara-body-making-Karma. Deducting these three from the 120, we get 117 as the total number of bindable Karmas in this stage.
(2) The Hellish and Sub-human Age have had their bondage-separation (Bandha Vyucchitti) at the end of the first and second stage respectively. But in this stage no age-karma is cver bound; therefore the Human- and Celestial-Age sub-classes also must be excluded. At the end of the second stage, we had 101---25=76 bindable sub-classes. Deducting the 2 from this 76, we get 74.
(3) In this stage the Human- and Celestial-Age and the Tirthamkarabody sub-classes can also be bound. Therefore to the above 74 these 3 must be added; making the bindable sub-classes 77.
(4) The Ahâraka Sarira or Assimilative body and the Âhâraka Ângopanga or Assimilative limbs and minor limbs sub-classes are bound only here. Therefore (63—6)=57 plus these 2-=59 is the bindable total here.
(5) At the end of this stage, there is the bondage-scparation of the following 16 sub-classes :
(1) Mithyátva. Wrong Belief. (2) Napumsaka veda. Common sex inclination. (3) Narakayu. Hellish Age.
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