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greed passion, sense of touch, sleep and attachment. (V. K. I i.e. the third Vikathá, gossip; the fourth Kasháya, passion; and the first Indriya, sense).
A concrete example of it may be something like this :
A man takes part in seditious talk and is prepared to commit sedition for money so that he may go and live with his wife in his village. Here the elements of seditious gossip, greed, and the object of touch are obvious. Sleep and attachment are the two elements common to all combinations of Pramáda. They merely indicate that the soul who is affected by carelessness (Pramáda) is a mundane soul. Sleep and attachment to some extent or other, are always present in all careless mundane souls, i. e., in all souls who are not in the seventh or higher spiritual stages. This example applies to the combinations under gathas 38 and 40. Under gathas 37 and 39 the process is exactly the reverse of it. We begin the senses and finish with the gossips.
संठाविदूरा रूवं उबरीदो संगुणित सगमाणे । अवणिज्ज अकिदयं कुज्जा एमेव सव्वत्थ ॥ ४२ ॥ संस्थाप्य रूपमुपरितः संगुणित्वा स्वकमानम् । अपनीयानङ्कितं कुर्यात् एवमेव सर्वत्र ॥ ४२ ॥
42. Taking 1, multiply it by the number of the elements of the last class, substract from it the number of elements which follow in their class the element given. Do the same at all steps.
Commentary.
For example to find the number of combination, being given the elements seditious gossip, greed, and touch etc., i. e., 3rd gossip, 4th passion and 1st sense. Take 1, multiply it by 5 senses=5, substract from it 4 (i. e., the No. of senses which follow touch in their class) this gives 1. Multiply the remainder by 4 passions-4, substract from it nothing as no element follows greed in the passion class -4. Multiply 4 by 4 gossips-16; substract 1 as 1 gossip follows seditious gossip in the gossip class, the result is 15. Thus 15th is the number of this combination.
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