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and human, respectively, in the 3 parts of the third place (with three thought paints) of the earth furrow or intense-degree; (and) four (hellish, sub-human, human and celestial) in each of the remaining (three) places (of the earth furrow i. e., intense passion.)
धूलिगछक्कट्ठाणे चउराऊ तिगदुगं च उवरिल्लं । पणचदुठाणे देवं देवं सुगणं च तिहाणे ॥ २६४ ॥ धूलिगषट्वस्थाने चतुरायूंषि विकद्विकं चोपरितनम् । पञ्चचतुर्थस्थाने देवं देवं शून्यं च तृतीयस्थाने ॥ २६४ ॥
294, (The bondage of age-Karma) in the dust-line degree (i. e., mild passion), in the (first) place of 6 (thought paints is,) 4, i. e., hellish, sub-human, human and celestial), (the last) three (except hellish), (the last) two (in its 3 parts) (respectively); and beyond it in (its 2nd and 3rd) places, of 5 and 4 (thought-paints is) celestial (in each;) (and) in (its 4th) place of 3 (thought paints) (is) celestial (in one part) and nil (in the other.)
सुगणं दुगइगिठाणे जलम्हि सुरणं असंखभजिदकमा। चउचोदसवीसपदा असंखलोगा हु पत्तेयं ॥ २६५ ॥ शून्यं द्विकैकस्थाने जले शून्यमसंख्यभजितक्रमाः । चतुश्चतुर्दशविंशतिपदा असंख्यलोका हि प्रत्येकम् ॥ २६५ ॥
295. (The bondage of age-karma in the dust-line or mild passion) in its 5th and 6th places with 2 and one (thought paints is) nil; in water (line also it is) nil; each one is an innumerable part (of the preceding one in intensity), among the 4, 14 and 20 steps successively. Each one is innumerable (times the innumerable spatial units) of the universe.
Commentary. The 20 places of age bondage and non-bondage as also their • inter-relation with the 4 places of intensity etc., and the 14 places of
thought paints will be best seen from the following table,
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