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mithyātva with beginning, and also an end, the maximum duration between such beginning and end being ardha-pudgala-paravarta.
In the case of the soul who will never attain samyag-darsana, the mithyatva is beginningless and endless. Such souls are called abhavya. There is also a category of souls who are not abhavya, though they will never attain samyag-darśana, because condition favourable to samyag-darśana would never be available to them, in spite of the inherent potentiality (laddhi) for that. Such souls are called bhayya only formally and not materially. The mithyātva of a soul who is destined to attain samyagdarśana is without beginning but with an end. Such souls are called laddhim paducca bhava-siddhika on account of their such potentiality (laddhi) which is destined to become an actuality.1
The duration of the second gunasthāna is six avalikās, one avalikå being equal to 45 seconds/262144.2
The third gunasthāna lasts for an antarmuhurta, after which the soul rises to the fourth or falls down to the first. A soul cannot die in this state, unlike as in the second state.
The maximum duration of the fourth gunasthāna is stated to be a little over 33 sägaras'.
According to another tradition recorded in the Tattvartha-bhāşya, the figure “33' is replaced by '66'.3 Siddhasenagaņiexplains how the number 66 is arrived at by pointing out that if the soul goes to the anuttara vimāna (enjoying the life-span of 33 sāgaras) twice, or to the acyutakalpa (having the life-span of 22 sägaras) thrice, the total duration comes to 66 sågaras in both cases. The additional duration in the first case will be two pūrvakoțis less by 8 years and in the latter three pūrvakoțis less by the same number. This calculation is based on the Agamika tradition, as distinguished from the tradition of 33 sägaras based on the literature on the doctrine of karman, both Svetāmbara and Digambara.
The duration at the 5th, the 6th and the 13th is a little less than one pūrva koți. In the 5th, it may be less by antarmuhurta and in the 6th and 13th by 8 years because the latter is the minimum age of initiation into the monastic order.
The duration of the other states (viz. from 7th to 12th) is less than one muhūrta. That of the 14th state is as long as the utterance of five short vowels as already noted.
१८. सम्यगदष्टि - देशविरत - सर्वविरत - अनन्तवियोजक-दर्शनमोहक्षपक
उपशमक-उपशान्तमोह-क्षपक-क्षीणमोह-जिनानां क्रमशोऽसंख्येयगुणा AGITTI
18. samyagdrsţi-deśavirata-sarvavirata-anantaviyojaka - darśanamohakşa
paka - upaśamaka - upaśāntamoha - kşapaka - kşīnamoha - jinänāṁ .. kramaso'saħkheyaguņā nirjarā. 1 Bhagavati Sūtra, 6/32. 2 Muni Mahendra Kumar. Viśva Prahelkā, page x. 3 1/7,8. 4 Tattvärtha-bhäşya-tika, Part I, p. 60.
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