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The Jain Time-Cycle And The Cosmic Calendar
becomes slower and slower. It is illustrated as under.
After a lapse of the first fifty million million Sāgarōpamas years of the Utsarpiņikāla, the life-span rises from 20 years to nearly 72 hundred thousand pūrva years (1 pūrva=7056000,00,00,000 70.56x1012 years) and his height rises from 1 hand to 450 Dhanusyas (bow). But after lapse of the next 50 million million Sāgarōpama years, the life-span rises only to 84 hundred thousand pūrva years and the height rises from 450 Dhanusyas to 500 Dhanusyas. Similarly, at the end of the fourth ārā having 2x101 Sāgarōpama years of Utsarpiņikāla, the life-span rises to nearly 1 palyōpama years and height rises to one Gau, and at the end of the fifth ārā of Utsarpiņikāla, the life-span rises to nearly 2 palyōpama years and height rises to two Gaus. The fifth ārā is 3 x 10" Sāgarōpama years long. At the end of the sixth ārā, having 4 x 4" sagaropma years the life-span is of three palyōpama years and the height is of three Gāus. Jain scriptures mention that in each period (ara) of 2 x 10 Sāgarōpama, 3 x 10" Sāgarōpama years, 4.0x101 Sāgarōpama years, life-span rises by one palyōpama years and height rises by one Gau. Similarly, life-span and height decreases in Avasarpiņikāla, the later half of the Jaintime-cycle.
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Today on the basis of radiation of radioactive element of archaeological objects, scientists can say how old the objects are. But according to what has been stated above, compared to the rate of radiation of radioactive element from those objects today, the rate of radiation of radioactive element from those objects was perhaps low a few years ago and it was perhaps extremely low many more years ago. But without taking this into account, we work out the time of radiation of the past and, therefore, there is all possibilities of errors. e.g. An archaeological object would perhaps have previously taken fifty years to emit as much radiation as it emitted during the last five years and it would have perhaps still previously taken 5000 years to emit as much radiation as it emitted during the fifty years. I, therefore, suggest that more research work should be done on this subject and on this method. Then we shall come nearer to reality.
The basic difference between the modern cosmic calendar and the Jain time-cycle is that in the cosmic calendar everything happens over again, anew or de nova after utter destruction of the universe and suddenly animals of gigantic size are created and bacteria and viruses are believed to be their
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| SR No. | 001603 |
| Book Title | Scientific Secrets of Jainism |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Nandighoshvijay |
| Publisher | Research Institute of Scientific Secrets from Indian Oriental Scriptures Ahmedabad |
| Publication Year | 2001 |
| Total Pages | 378 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English, Science, Religion, & Articles |
| File Size | 21 MB |