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obscurity - ayaśahkīrti. The commencement of the binding of celestial age - devāyuḥ – is caused generally by negligence (pramāda) and also by the absence of negligence in the next (seventh) stage of 'perfect vows' - apramattasamyata. Owing to the absence of negligence (pramāda), there is stoppage of this binding of celestial age in the higher stages, i.e., after the seventh stage of 'perfect vows' - apramattasamyata. The passions bereft of negligence (pramāda), etc., are stopped as the passions (kaşāya) are controlled. Such passions are of three degrees, namely, intense (tīvra), moderate (madhyama) and minute (jaghanya). These three degrees of passions (kaşāya) remain in the next three stages (8th, 9th and 10th). In one/numerable part of the eighth stage of 'unprecedented purity' - apūrvakaraṇa - only the two karmas of sleep (nidrā) and slumber (pracalā) bind. In the next one/numerable part, thirty divisions of karmas bind. These are the celestial state of existence - devagati, birth as a being with five senses - pańcedriya jāti, transformable body - vaikriyika śarīra, projectable body - āhāraka śarīra, luminous body – taijasa śarīra, karmic body - kārmaņa śarīra, symmetrical build - samacaturasra samsthāna, the chief and secondary parts of the transformable body – vaikriyika śarīra angopānga, the chief and secondary parts of the projectable body - āhāraka śarīra angopānga, colour - varņa, odour - gandha, taste – rasa, touch - sparsa, transmigrating force tending to celestial state - devagatiprāyogyānupūrvī, neither heavy nor light - agurulaghu, self-annihilation - upaghāta, destruction caused by others – paraghāta, respiration - ucсhvāsa, graceful movement - praśastha vihāyogati, movable body - trasa, gross body - bādara, complete development - paryāpta, individual body-pratyeka śarīra, firmness of the body - sthira, attractiveness of form – śubha, good-tempered - subhaga, melodious voice - susvara, lustrous body – ādeya, sturdy formation - nirmana, and the status of the Tirthańkara. In the last instant of this stage, the four karmas causing laughter-hāsya, liking - rati, fear – bhaya, and disgust – jugupsā, bind. The influx (āsrava) of
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