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Tattvārthasūtra
bend occurs up to three instants but not in the fourth. How is it? The being, who is to be born in the special region outside the mobile channel (in the nisku ta ksetral) from another such region commences motion with three bends as in such case no straight movement is possible. Here, there is no need for the fourth bend, as there is no place of birth which requires further bends. Hence movement with bend is only up to three instants and not in the fourth instant. 'Ca’is intended for indicating both types of motion, i.e., with and without bends.
The time limit for movement with the bend has been mentioned. How much time is required for movement without the bend?
एकसमयाऽविग्रहा ॥२९॥
[अविग्रहा] विग्रहरहित गति [ एकसमया] एक समय मात्र ही होती है अर्थात् उसमें एक समय ही लगता है।
Movement without a bend is for one instant (samaya).
That movement that takes one instant is 'ekasamayā'. The movement without a bend is ‘avigraha’. The soul and the matter impelled by movement takes only one instant even to reach the end of the
1- Niskuța kşetra is located in the topmost corner of the universe outside the mobile channel (trasa nādi). Living beings endowed with more than one sense are found only within the boundaries of the mobile channel and not outside it. Hence it is called the mobile channel (trasa nādī). But onesensed creatures are found within as well as outside the mobile channel. The mobile channel is the region that runs through the centre of the universe. It is in the form of a prism having a square base, each side measuring one rajju, extending throughout the universe of fourteen rajju in height.
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