Fivefold (five-jointed) nescience

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[Base sūtra:] {{avidyā|Nescience}} of five joints (pañcaparvā avidyā).

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[Verse:] Darkness (tamas), delusion (moha), great delusion (mahāmoha), gloom (tāmisra), and blinding gloom (andhatāmisra)—[these are the five joints of nescience].

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[Verse:] Those two—darkness and delusion—are each eightfold, grounded in the eight prakṛtis [taken as the self]. This [great delusion] is the self-conceit of [false] self-knowledge, the pride in the lordly powers beginning with attainment (prāpti);

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[Verse:] in regard to the five fulfilled objects—the seen [and] likewise the scripturally-heard—the delusion that is the conceit "I," which is the great delusion, is tenfold.

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[Verse:] In regard to the eight lordly powers and the ten objects, [the affliction] called "gloom" (tāmisra) is reckoned eighteenfold; the despair [at their loss], called "blinding gloom" (andhatāmisra), is met with at death.

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[Verse:] This nescience of five joints is divided into sixty-two varieties.