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Ghātiyā karma · knowledge-obscuring

Jñānāvaraṇa

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The knowledge-obscuring karma: 5 sub-types, bound for an antarmuhūrta at the least and 30 koṭākoṭi sāgaropama at the most.

Five sub-types, one for each of the five kinds of knowledge it can cover: sensory, scriptural, clairvoyant, telepathic and omniscient. It never covers knowledge completely; a soul with no knowledge at all would not be a soul.

It ends, with darśanāvaraṇa and antarāya, at the close of the twelfth guṇasthāna, and its ending is what omniscience is.

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 — Jñānāvaraṇa highlighted

Measurements and counts

Kindghātiyā — harming
Sub-types5
Shortest holdantarmuhūrta
Longest hold30 koṭākoṭi sāgaropama
Ends atguṇasthāna 12

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समयं गोयम! मा पमायए

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

Uttarādhyayana Sūtra 10