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Chapter 3 - Suras 7-18
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Thus, the existence of aquatic beings is of an anterior aspect, the existence of snakes has a duration of thirty-seven thousand years, and the existence of four-legged terrestrial beings is described in three categories. In the underlying source, the aquatic beings have an anterior existence of thirty-seven thousand years, the snakes have a duration of forty-five thousand years, the existence of birds is established as a duration of twenty thousand years, and the terrestrial beings have a lifespan of eighty thousand years. The existence of the five-sensed beings in the womb is characterized by accepting birth seven or eight times, while the collective aspect has a measure of seven cycles of birth. [17-18]| SR No. | 001074 |
| Book Title | Tattvartha sutra |
| Original Sutra Author | Umaswati, Umaswami |
| Author | Sukhlal Sanghavi |
| Publisher | Jain Sahitya Prakashan Mandir |
| Publication Year | 1977 |
| Total Pages | 667 |
| Language | Gujarati, Sanskrit |
| Classification | Book_Gujarati, Tattvartha Sutra, Philosophy, J000, J001, Tattvartha Sutra, & Tattvarth |
| File Size | 23 MB |