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next intensity-class consists of such atoms as are possessed of intensityunits which are infinite times greater in number than the intensityunits of an atom of the last group of the first intensity-class. The totality of another infinite number of consecutive groups, obtained exactly as before, constitutes the second intensity-class. Similarly wę get the third intensity-class. And so on. In this way we can obtain an infinite number of intensity-classes consisting of groups possessed of different consecutive numbers of intensity-units. These intensityclasses are conceived as divided into four groups. The first group, called 'first degree group' (eka-sthānika), consists of those intensityclasses (rasa-spardhakas) whose groups are possessed of atoms of infinitely less intensity-units than the atoms of the groups constituting the second group, called 'second degree group' (dvisthānika), of intensity-classes. The second degree group', the 'third degree group' (tri-sthānika) and the fourth degree group' (catuḥsthānika) are similarly conceived in relation to one another. As is apparent from our description, each group consists of infinitely graded intensityclasses of varying intensity-units (rasabhāgas). The most virulent type of passions (anantānubandhin) leads to the bondage of the fourth degree group' of intensity-classes of all the inauspicious types of karmic matter, the second type of passions (apratyākhyānāvarana) leads to the bondage of the third degree group' of intensity-classes and the third type of passions (pratyākhyānāvarana) to the second degree group'. The fourth type of passions (sarnjvalana), however, leads to the bondage of the first degree group of only these seventeen types of inauspicious karmic matter: the five obstructive karmans, the first four knowledge-covering karmans, the first three intuition-covering karmans, the karman that generates hankering for the male sex and the four karmans giving rise to the fourth type of passions (sarjvalana).* The reverse is the case with the bondage of the auspicious karmic matter. The third and the fourth types of passions lead to the bondage of the fourth degree group' of intensity-classes of the auspicious types of karmic matter. The second type of passions leads to the bondage of the third degree group' of intensity-classes of the
1 Cf. Kg2, p. 63: tatra cai 'kaika-karma-skandhe yaḥ sarvajaghanya-rasah paramāņuḥ: . yāvad anantāni rasa-spardhakāny uttişthante.
2 Cf. aśubhānām nimbopama-viryo ya eka-sthāniko rasas tasmäd anantaguna-vīryo dvi-sthānikah, tato 'py ananta-guņa-viryas tri-sthānikah, tasmad apy ananta-guna-viryaś catuḥsthānika iti parasparam supratītam evă 'nantaguna-rasatvam iti ... etat sarvam Pancasangrahābhiprāyato vyākhyātamKg2, p. 67.
3 We have translated aśubha-praksti as inauspicious type of karmic matter. The aśubha-prakstis are those karmans whose nature it is to produce painful fruition.
* Karmagrantha V, gāthā 64 (Kg2, pp. 64-5).
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