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PREVIOUS BIRTHS
Incarnation as god (71) Without confessing that, Marici died from fasting and became a god in Brahmaloka with a life-duration of ten sāgaropamas.
Origin of Sārkhya (72–74) Kapila made Āsuri and others his disciples, taught his practices, died, and also became a god in Brahmaloka. After he had known his former birth through clairvoyance and had come to earth because of delusion, he communicated the Sānkhya doctrine composed by himself to Asuri and others. From his teaching handed down orally the Sāňkhya philosophy developed here. For the majority of people engage in practices which can be observed with comfort.
Various unimportant incarnations (75–85)
Marici's soul fell and became a Brāhman, named Kausika, with a life-term of eighty lacs of pūrvas, 15 in the hamlet Kollāka. Always devoted to sensual pleasures, occupied with the acquisition of wealth, pitiless in injury, et cetera, he passed much time. At the end he became a Tridandin and, after he had died and passed through many births, he became a Brāhman, Puşpamitra, in the hamlet Sthuna. He became a Tridaņdin and, after he had completed a life of seventy-two lacs of pūrvas, became a god in Saudharma with a medium life-term.
He fell and became a Brāhman, Agnyudyota, in the hamlet Caitya and as before became a Tridandin, living for sixty-four lacs of pūrvas. After death he became a god in Aiśāna with a medium life-term. Then he fell and became a Brāhman, named Agnibhuti, in the hamlet Mandira. He became a Tridandin, living for fifty-six lacs of pūrvas, and after death became a god in Sanatkumāra with a medium life-term. He fell and became a Brāhman, Bhāradvāja, in Svetambi. He
15 75. A pūrva is 8,400,0002 years. K., -p. 338.
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