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Praksti, karmabandha, Karmasthiti and Karmaveda except one in Anuyogadavāra.
In Bhagavats all the ten terms denoting the different states of Karman namely Bandha, Sattā, Udai, Udiraņā, Upasama, Nidhatti, Nikācanā, and Samkramaņa are found. In addition, Calana (moving), Prahāņa (decreasing), Chedana (cutting), Bhedana (breaking), Dagdha (burning), Yathākarma, Yathānikarma, as per karma acquired, as per time, place, states and causes determining outcome are seen. Thus for the first time in Bhagavatī, the complete description regarding different states of karma is found.
The sūtras, explaining the basic tenets of Nirgrantha karma doctrine, occurred in Bhagavatī, are in a good number. Some of them are as follows
The living beings experience the fruits of self-created misery. All the four types of beings, who have performed sinful acts, are not liberated without experiencing their effects. The suffering of all the souls is made and perceived by their ownselves. The souls are reborn on the strength of their own Karmas." The actions of living beings are always experienced by the mind." The single being and indeed the entire (animate world) acquires its diversity as a result of karman,'2 All the beings acquire a certain ayu without being aware of it.13 The soul, who has already bound karman may or may not again bind bad karman in present and future, 14 The state of one who is free from Karman must be conceived as a state of being unconnected, undefiled and of distinct condition going undisturbedly to the target i.e. attaining Siddhahood at Siddhasthāna.15
In Bhagavati, Mahāvira is also seen as refuting the postulates of other systems related to karma. doctrine. !6 The heretics maintain that those, killed in wars reborn among the gods. Refuting it Mahāvīra cites a few examples of wars with the number of killed therein and the name of their existences in the next world. For example, in Rathamūsala Samgrāma (War of the chariot with the mace,) out of the 9,600,000 men killed, 10,000 were reborn as the roe of a fish, one was reborn among the gods, one in a good family, the others among hellish and
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