The Doctrine of the Jainas, Described after the Old Sources c8.186

c8.186

In the Canon (Ṭhāṇ. 220 b), different from Umāsvāti, those four points of view appear among the bandha, and, moreover, they are being considered with regard to their relative number by asking of what sort of binding, what duration, what intensity and what quantity the relatively least etc. cases will occur. But then the cases mentioned are dealt with in reference to saṃkama, ni(d)hatta and nikāiya. saṃkama presents itself when a Karman sub-species different from the one formerly bound materializes. nidhatta and nikāiya signify different grades of intensity by which Karman particles unite (comp. also Vy. 25b). These explanations as well as those of the following expressions have to be drawn from the commentaries only. For there are still others like oyaṭṭei and uvaṭṭei which occur side by side with saṃkamai, nihattei and nikāei (Viy. 24 b, 26 a). They express that the effect and, consequently the consumption of a Karman may become either larger or smaller than is presupposed by its binding. The later authors speak of oyaṭṭaṇā and uvvaṭṭaṇā, the latter appearing in the Canon in a different meaning (§ 92). Under what conditions the mentioned processes occur is not said there.