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Viman, 5. Nand-kant Viman, 6. Nand-varn Viman, 7. Nand-leshya Viman, 8. Nand-dhvja Viman, 9. Nand-shring Viman, 10. Nand-srisht Viman, 11. Nandkut Viman, 12. Nando-travatansak Viman. These celestial beings have the maximum life span of fifteen Sagropama duration. They inhale and exhale or breath in and breath out after an interval of fifteen fortnight means after the completion of seven and a half months. They desire for food once after the completion of fifteen years. There are many beings capable of salvation among them who will take only fifteen births in future. After that they will attain salvation. After abandoning all their accumulated previous kamas they will get supreme liberation. They will destroy all their miseries in the end.
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॥ पंद्रहवां समवाय समाप्त ।। (The end of Fifteenth Samvaya)
सोलहवां समवाय The Sixteenth Samvaya
११०-सोलस य गाहा-सोलसगा पण्णत्ता, तं जहा-'समए 'वेयालिए उवसग्गपरिना । "इत्थीपरिण्णा 'निरयविभत्ती महावीरथुई "कुसीलपरिभासिए “वीरिए 'धम्मे "समाही "मग्गे १'समोसरणे १३आहातहिए १ गंथे १५जमईए गाहासोलसमे १६सोलसगे। ___गाथा-षोडशक में सोलह गाथाएँ (अध्ययन) निरूपित हैं। यथा – १. समय अध्ययन (नास्तिक
आदि के सिद्धान्तों या मतों का प्रतिपादन), २. वैतालीय अध्ययन, ३. उपसर्ग परिज्ञा अध्ययन, ४. स्त्री परिज्ञा अध्ययन, ५. नरक विभक्ति अध्ययन, ६. महावीर स्तुति अध्ययन, ७. कुशील परिभाषित अध्ययन, ८. वीर्य अध्ययन, ९. धर्म अध्ययन, १०. समाधि अध्ययन, ११. मार्ग अध्ययन, १२. समवशरण अध्ययन (तीन सौ तिरेसठ मतों का समुच्चय रूप से वर्णन), १३. याथातथ्य अध्ययन, १४. ग्रन्थ अध्ययन, १५. यमकीय अध्ययन, १६. सोलहवाँ गाथा अध्ययन।
In the sixteenth aphorism sixteen chapters have been described. They are as follows :- 1. Samay Chapter (it expounds the tenets and faiths of the atheists etc., 2. Vaitalya Chapter, 3. Upsarg Prigya Chapter (about calamities), 4. Istri Prigya Chapter (about women), 5. Narak Vibhakti Chapter (about hell), 6. Mahavir Stuti Chapter (about hymn), 7. Kushil Paribhashit Chapter, 8. Virya Chapter (about humility), 9.Dharama Chapter, 10. Samadhi Chapter, 11. Marg Chapter (about path to salvation), 12. Samavsaran Chapter (description of three hundred sixty three faiths in the integrated form), 13. Yathatatthiya Chapter
समवायांग सूत्र
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16th Samvaya