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Note that, Non-bound is just one less than the bound. There are 40 existence places and 120 divisions. The number of divisions in each place is given below the number of existing sub-classes in each.
The numbers in five places in the first row are with reference to the existence of Tirthankara Karma. The first place refers to all souls except sub-humans which have no existence of Tirthankara Karma, and have existence of 146 (148-sub-human and any other age). It has 4 divisions-(1) human age current, hellish age bound; (2) human age current, celestial age bound; (3) hellish age current, human age bound; (4) celestial age current, human age bound. It is noticeable that in these 4 divisions 2 same ages occur twice, and therefore in giving the number of divisions, only two are counted. The second place has 142 (148-4 error-feeding passions, sub-human age and any other age). The third place has 141 (142-wrong-belief). The 4th place has 140 (141-mixed belief). The 5th place has 139 (140-clouded-belief). Each of these four places has got 2 divisions only--(1) human age current, hellish age bound; (2) human age current, celestial age bound. As to five places of non-bound age Karma of the first row, the number is the same as in bound places minus bound-age Karma; but the divisions in each of the first two of 145 and 141, are three having regard to current hellish, human and celestial ages. The third place of 140 has one division of current human age. The 4th place of 139 has 3 divisions havia regard to current hellish, human or celestial age. A human who has begun destruction of deluding Karma, but has not completed it, can die and be born in hellish or celestial condition. The fifth place of 138 (viz. 148 minus 3 ages, and 7 Karmas preventing right-belief) has also 3 divisions with reference to current human, celestial and hellish ages. The soul with 138 is a destructive right-believer with Tírthankara Karma. He can either be a Tírthankara in current human age, in cases where he has bound Tírthankara Karma, with celebrations of at most three auspicious occasions of adoption of aus. terity, perfect knowledge and liberation; or he may go to heaven or hell and become Tírthankara in third birth as a man. Till six months before the expiry of their life-period, he will remain with-out bondage of human age; and will have existence of 138 sub-classes. -
The five places of the second row have Tírthankara Karma less in each. In the 2 places of 145 and 141 there are twelve divisions in each, like that in the place of 145 in wrong belief stage, but only five are counted (vide (3.) B. 2 in chart of wrong-belief). Each of the 3rd and 4th places of 140 and 139 has 4 divisions, i. e., current
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