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The binding of karman is three fold, effected by the Jivappaoga (exertion of soul) Anantarabandha (immediate) and Paramparabandha (mediate).SS This is true for all hellish, animals, men and gods. This is demonstrated for the binding of the eight kinds of karman and their realisation (udaya) as well as for the binding of sexes (veda) bodies, instincts, leśyās, kinds of belief and kinds of knowledge and nonknowledge.
The fifteen places, where karman is bound and consumed, are the five Bhāratas, five Airavatas and the five Mahāvidehas. The thirty places that are free from karman are five Himavatas, five Hirnayavatas, five Harivarsas, the five Ramagga, the five Devakurus and five Uttarakurus.
Bhagavati also depicts minimum and maximum duration of their incubation period. The period of effectiveness of karman equals its thinless its abādhā. Again the description about the Kāṁkşă-mohanīyafaith deluding and Age-determining karmas to different beings, is found.
In the conclusion we may say that the first impression we get while going through the Bhagavati that it has treated each and every subject very exhaustively. Treatment of Bandha, Udai and Sattä according to 24 Dandakas and 11 sthānas, for the first time occurred here. The bondage etc. due to routine activities of common men as well as of monks is a significant contribution of this text. Again, the detailed treatment to the karma bondage of one sensed beings is not found in the earlier Jaina Canonical texts.
The absence of treatment of karma doctrine according to the Stages of Spiritual develoment confirms that till the date of Bhagavati concept of Guņasthāna has not come into being as indicated by Porf. S. M. Jain in his tract Guņasthāna Siddhāntā kā Vikısa.
It may also be pointed out that apart from the doctrinal aspect of karma there might have been an effort on the part of the Jaina Ācāryas to regulate the daily activities of common men as well as of monks, in the framework of karmas.
References (1) Dr. Ashok Kumar Singh, "Prācīna Jaina granthňo Mñe Karma
Siddhānta kā Vikāsakrma", Aspects of Jainology Vol. 5, ed. Prof. S.M. Jain & Dr. A.K. Singh, Pārsvanāth Vidyāpīth, Varanasi-5, 1994, pp.101-113.
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