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bone-joint, while the last samghayana is the weakest bone-joint. Jaina scriptures describe that the stronger the bone-joint, the better or worse work can be done by the animal or men. So only a possessor of the first type of bone-joint, i.e. he, who has vajrar sabhanārāca saṁghayana,
Fig. 1 Vajrarṣabhanārāca
Fig. 2 Rşabhanårāca
Fig. 3 Nārāca
can free himself from the bondage of karma. i.e. he can attain emancipation, and due to the worst actions he goes to even the seventh hell also.8 Similarly all men, with a different types of bone-joints, have not equal bearing power. Kalpa-sutra approves that only Lord Mahavira could endure the great calamity caused by god Sangama, because he had the first type of bone-joint.4
, chevattena u gammai cauro ja kappa kiliaisu
causu du du kappa vuddhi padhame nam java siddhi vi do padhama pudhavigamanam chevatthe kiliyai samghayanam ikki kka pudhavi vuddhi...
---Brhat Samgrahani-sutra, verses 162 & 255. Kalpa-sutra Subodhika, Commentary by Sri Vinayavijay, 6th part,
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