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A SOURCE-BOOK IN JAINA PHILOSOPHY
77 lavas
-2 ghați or -65536 kşullaka bhava or 16777216 avalikā or
-3773 prāna or
-one muhurta (48 minutes) 30 muhurta
- one day and a night 15 days
-one pakşa (fortnight) 2 pakşas
-one mäsa (month) 2 māsa
-one rtu (season) 3 rtu
one ayana 2 a yana
--one year 5 years
-One yuga 70 crore-crores, 56 lakhs krore years -one pūrva Innumerable years
-one palyopama 10 Crore-crore palyopama
-one sāgara 20 Crore-crore sāgara
-one kālacakra Anantakālacakra
-one pudgala parāvartana THE NATURE OF KALA IN THE VEDIC TRADITION
The term Kāla has been used at many places in the Vedas and Upanişads. But we do not get a clear picture of the exact meaning of the Käla in all these references.
Kaņāda in the Vaisesika darśana has presented four sūtras for describing the principle of Kāla. He says that Kāla is substance, it is eternal and it is the ground of all activities. In the Nyāya philosophy Gautama has not given an independent interpretation about the nature of Kāla. Incidentally, he has described the nature of Kāla as the ground of all activities. Just as Vaiseșikas have done, the Nyāya-Vaiseşkas have a similar view of Kāla.
In the Pūrva-mīmāṁsă there is not much discussion about the nature of the Kāla. Jaimini has not given specific references regarding
1 See-Upanişad vākya koşa. 2 Vaiseșikadarśana 2, 2, 6-9.
Aparasminnaparam ugapacciram kşi pramiti kālalingāni. Dravyatva nityatve vāyunā vyākhyātam. Tattvaw bhāvāna Nityes
vabhāvādanit yeșu bhāvātkāraṇe kālākhyeti. 3 Pañcādhyāyi 2, 1, 23.
Digdesakālākāśeșvapyevau prasangaḥ.
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