Threefold suffering

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[Base sūtra:] Suffering (duḥkha) is threefold.

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[Verse:] Suffering is declared threefold: the internal (adhyātmika), the elemental (adhibhautika), and the divine (ādhidaivika); and of these the first is remembered as twofold—

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[Verse:] bodily and mental, born of the disorders [of wind, bile, phlegm] and of desire and the rest. That which arises from beings—humans and the like—is the elemental (ādhibhautika).

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[Verse:] That which arises from the divine [powers]—cold, wind, and the rest—is the divine (ādhidaivika). This, in brief, is the commentary on the sūtras, [given] to the best of [my] understanding.

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[Verse:] And I shall [now] expound the systematic procedure (prakriyā), for the benefit of those [versed in] the Purāṇas.