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भगवती सूत्र शः १ उः १
is indeterminate. Their unconscious intake takes place incessantly and over time without a gap. For conscious intake, the minimum time-gap is one 48-minute period and the maximum is two full-fast days missing in all six meals. The rest as with the four-organ beings, ...till exhaust not karma which is still dormant.
43. Description applies to men with this difference that their conscious intake has a gap varying between one 48 -minute period for the minimum and three full-fast days missing in all eight meals for the maximum. Intake by the five-organ beings transform again and again but in an indeterminate way into organs of audition, vision, smell, taste and touch, and the rest as before ...till exhaust not karma which is still dormant.
[ on celestial beings ] ४४-वाणमंतराणं ठिईए णाणत्तं अवसेसं जहा णागकुमाराणं ।
४५-एवं जोइसियाण वि णवरं उस्सासो जहण्णणं मुहुत्त हुत्तस्स उक्कोसेण वि मुहुत्तपुहुत्तस्स। आहारो जहण्णेणं दिवसपुहृत्तस्स उक्कोसेण वि दिवसपुहुत्तस्स । सेसं तहेव ।
४६-वेमाणियाणं ठिई भाणियव्वा ओहिया। उस्सासो जहणणं महत्तपूहत्तस्स उक्कोसेण तेत्तीसाए पकखाणं । आहारो आभोगणिव्वत्तिओ जहणणं दिवसपुहुत्तस्स उक्कोसेणं तेत्तीसाए वाससहस्साणं । सेसं चलियाई तहेव जाव...णिज्जाति।
44. There is difference in the life-span of the Vānavyantaras41; the rest as with the Nāgakumāras.
45. So of the Jyotiskas42, with the difference that their breathing activity has a gap whose minimum is iwo to nine 48minutes and so is the maximum, i.e., two to nine 48-minutes. Intake has a gap varying between two to nine days for the minimum as well as for the maximum. The rest as before.
46. The life-span of the Vaimānikas may be stated to be one audhika, i.e., from one palyopama to 33 sāgaropamas. Their
