________________ Notes [ St. 177-182 in the first step which is constituted of the *elimination of the 28 मोहनीयप्रकृतिs, the जीव finds himself in a position to destroy the नरकगति, the तिर्यगगति, the नरकानुपूर्वी and the Faireye Namakarmas after destroying which there remains no possibility for him ito go to the existences of hell-creatures and lower animals. He is also enabled to eliminate the four जातिकर्मs (एकेन्द्रिय, द्वीन्द्रिय, त्रीन्द्रिय and चतुFift) which makes it impossible for him to get these existences in future. The same reason viz the Spiritual purity of the First Step enables him to destory the six harmful नामकर्मप्रकतिs like आताप (fierceness which produces terror in others), Jaula (serenity), Ferrera (the cause of stationary body), FF# ( the cause of subtle body ), Array (ordinary potentiality), and starfa (the cause of incompleteness of development), and three of the startणीय कर्मप्रकृतिs निद्रानिद्रा (the cause of deep sleep) प्रचलाप्रचला (the cause of extreme restlessness in sleep) and France (the cause of somnambulisim). The elimination of these 14 a Agafas and the 3 Fitaratustrangeras leads to the destruction of whatever little has remained of the eight middling कषायs (i. e. the प्रत्याख्यान and the अप्रत्याख्यानकषायs). The क्षपक now is said to have taken the second step of Spiritual Progress.
