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JAINA CONCEPTION OF SPACE AND TIME
It is noteworthy that the Jainas have not recognised the possibility of the following two parts : (1) the part characterised by absolute absence of both happiness and misery, (2) the part characterised by exactly equal quantities of both happiness and misery. The above mentioned six parts in the reverse order constitute the six parts of the period of progress. During the period of progress the bodily strength, bodily height and lifespan gradually increase. During the period of decadence the living beings gradually lose their bodily strengh, bodily height and life-span. Each such period of progress and decadence is ten crores of ocean Time. The two periods together constitute one complete round of Time Cycle. This one round is called Kalpa.52
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Part-I 1. Introduction to Abhidharmadipa, p. 90. 2. Ibid. 3. Rgveda 1.31.4; 2.27.11; 10.82.4; 1.30.21, 7.67.2. 4. Sankhyasūtra, 2.12. 5. Tattvārthasūtra, 5.1-2. 6. Pravacanasāra, 2.40. 7. Pañcastikāyatatparyavrtti, gäthä 76. 8. Sarvārthasiddhi, 5.12. 9. Tattvārthasūtra, 5.6. 10. Tattvärtha sütra, 5.4. 11. Ibid. 12. Tattvarthasūtra, 5.7. 13. Tattvārthasūtra, 5.18. 14. Sarvarthasiddhi, 5.12. 15. Sarvārthasiddhi, 5.12. 16. Tattvārthasāra, 31, Reals in the Jaina Metaphysics' (H. S. Bhatta
charya), p. 85-86. 17. Pañcāstikāya, 14. 18. Sarvärthasiddhi, 5.8. 19. Sarvarthasiddhi, 5.10. 20. Bhagavati 5.7. 21. Avaśyakaniryukti (Agamodaya) 37. 22. Tattvarthasūtra, 5.9.
