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CHAPTER VI
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ord Mahavira in flis Twenty-seventh
of the Important Births.
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he twenty-sixth remarkable life of Lord Mahavira extended over a period of twenty Sagropamas. This is really a very long period, but this too comes to an end one day. Time is so
unthinkably vast that even such periods appear quite infinitelly small when compared with it. Its minutes are passing one by one; this process has been at work since Eternity and will continue to be the same till Eternity. It is impossible to think how many years, Yugas, Aras, Palyopamas and Sagropamas have passed into the deep womb of time and have been digested by it. Just as oceans can be filled up by pouring water drop by drop, similarly periods like Sagaropamas are completed by passing away of time minute by minute. Just as the highest mountains, which one day raised their heads aloft in pride, are
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