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GOMMATASARA.
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shall take place once, and the process of infinite part increase and innumerable part increase repeated as above; there-after the numerical part shall take place the second time. The process should be repeated again and again to complete the numerical part increase as many times as there are spatial units in an innumerable part of a linear finger. The process of infinite part increase and innumerable part increase should again be exhausted, the same number of times as above. Then again infinite part increase shall take place as many times as there are spatial units etc., etc., etc. Thereafter the numerable fold increase shall once take place. The whole of the preceding process from the very beginning being repeated we shall have numerable fold increase a second time.
The repetition of the process should be done as many times as there are spatial units in an innumerable part of a linear finger and then we shall have the numerable fold increase the same number of times. Now again the process from the very beginning should be repeated to complete the innumerable part increase, and numerable part increase and again the innumerable part increase the same number of times, then infinite part increase should be done the same number of times, afterwards once innumerable fold increase should be done. In order to complete this innumerable fold increase the same number of times, the same process from the very beginning should be repeated the same number of times.
Now-again the process preceding the first innumerable fold increase should be repeated.
Then after making infinite part increase as many times as there are spatial units in innumerable part of a linear finger, infinite fold increase should be done once.
The number thus gained will be the last figure of the six-fold increase. This figure should be taken as the first figure for calculating the second six-fold increase. Such six-fold increases effected innumerable times, the innumerable spatial units of the universe represent the extent of Paryaya-Samása-knowledge.
For further details see Sanskrit commentary of Gommatsara. The following table will show how the repetition of increases is done. U refers to infinite part. 4 to innumerable part, 5 to numerable part, 6 to numerable fold, 7 to innumerable fold and 8 to infinite fold. The recurrence of any one or more of these figures means their repetition as many times as there are spatial units in an innumerable part of a linear finger.
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