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Aghātiyā karma · lifespan

Āyu

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The lifespan karma: 4 sub-types, bound for an antarmuhūrta at the least and 33 sāgaropama at the most.

Four sub-types, one for each destiny: hell, animal, human, god. It is bound once in a life, and the being it is bound for must live it out.

Its longest hold is thirty-three sāgaropama with no koṭākoṭi — the commentary says the omission is deliberate — because that is the longest any life lasts, in the seventh hell or in Sarvārthasiddhi. It ends at the close of the fourteenth.

antarmuhūrta1 muhūrta8121 sāgaropama10⁵10¹⁰1 koṭākoṭi30 koṭākoṭi sāg.antarmuhūrtaJñānāvaraṇa5 sub-typesends at 1230 koṭākoṭi sāg.antarmuhūrtaDarśanāvaraṇa9 sub-typesends at 1270 koṭākoṭi sāg.antarmuhūrtaMohanīya28 sub-typesends at 1230 koṭākoṭi sāg.antarmuhūrtaAntarāya5 sub-typesends at 1230 koṭākoṭi sāg.12 muhūrtaVedanīya2 sub-typesends at 1433 sāgaropamaantarmuhūrtaĀyu4 sub-typesends at 1420 koṭākoṭi sāg.8 muhūrtaNāma42 sub-typesends at 1420 koṭākoṭi sāg.8 muhūrtaGotra2 sub-typesends at 14ghātiyā · harmingaghātiyā · not harmingpast counting — placed by ratioThe eight karmas, by durationTattvārtha 8.14–8.20 · the same figures in both traditionsbelow the break, countable; above it, by ratio to a sāgaropamaāyu alone is in sāgaropama with no koṭākoṭi — deliberately70koṭākoṭi sāg. · mohanīya
The eight karmas, by duration — Āyu highlighted

Measurements and counts

Kindaghātiyā — not harming
Sub-types4
Shortest holdantarmuhūrta
Longest hold33 sāgaropama
Ends atguṇasthāna 14

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समयं गोयम! मा पमायए

Do not be heedless, Gautama, for even a single samaya.

Uttarādhyayana Sūtra 10