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THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE JAINAS.
. The four kinds of bondage duration are maximum, non-maximum, non-minimum and minimum. One extreme represents the maximum, and the other, the minimum. The spaces from the middle point to the maximum represents the non-maximum and to the minimum, the non-minimum. The maximum and minimum durations are extremely rare. Ordinarily the durations are of medium types of varying length. Our ordinary passions are neither extremely intense or mild. The corresponding bondage-duration is also of ordinary length. The quiescence for one Ságará years' duration is roughly 25,000th part or exactly speaking *0,00,04,07,484 of a pulse-beat. A Sagara consists of innumerable years. Thus it is evident that if a person at the moment of birth binds a Karma of 70 or 80 year's duration, it must begin to operate after one Ávalí or winki.e., practically at once. . अंतोकोडाकोडिहिदिस्स अंतोमुत्तमाबाहा ।
संखेजगुणविहीणं सव्वजहरणहिदिस्स हवे ॥ १५७ ॥ अन्तः कोटीकोटिस्थितेः अन्तर्मुहूर्त श्राबाधा। संख्यातगुणविहीनः सर्वजघन्यस्थितेः भवेत् ॥ १५७ ॥
157. The quiescence in a (bondage) duration of oneinter-crore of crore (Ságaras is) one antar-muhúrta. And a numerable part of it (is the quiescence) of the minimum duration of all (the bondages).
पुव्वाणं कोडितिभा-गादासंखेप अद्ध वोत्ति हवे ।
आउस्स य आबाहा ण हिदिपडिभागमाउस्स ॥ १५८ ॥ पूर्वाणां कोटित्रिभागादासंक्षेपाद्धा वा इति भवेत् । श्रायुषश्च याबाधा न स्थितिप्रतिभाग आयुषः ॥ १५८ ॥
158. The quiescence of the age (Karma) is from onethird of one-crore Púrva years (as maximum) to (the minimum) briefest time (Asankshepáddhá, an innumerable part of an Ávalí or wink). (But note that) in age (the quiescence is) not a proportionate part of the duration, as in other Karmas).
Commentary. : The age Karma is bound at one of the eight declining-times (Apakarshana Kala), see Gatha 517 (Jiva-Kanda). The maximum age is one crore Púrva years in the case of humans in work-region
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