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[The Collection of Seventy-Eight Stations]
[Seventy-seven kings, born in the lineage of 135 Anga-vamsa, renounced their homes and became ascetics, becoming homeless. 367-The family of the gods of the Gardatoy and Tusita lokas is said to have seventy-seven thousand (77,000) gods.
368-Seventy-seven lavas are said to be in each muhurta, calculated by the number of lavas.
Discussion-Lavas are a specific measure of time. One pran is the inhalation and exhalation of a healthy, strong, and free-from-affliction human being. Seven pranas make one stoka. Seven stokas make one lava, and seventy-seven lavas make one muhurta. Thus, there are three thousand seven hundred seventy-three (7 x 74 77 = 3773) breaths or pranas in one muhurta.
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The Collection of Seventy-Eight Stations... 369-Sakra, the Devendra, the Devraja, the fourth Lokapala, named Vaishramana, has the lordship, ownership, possession, and sustenance of seventy-eight lakh (38+40=78) abodes (buildings) of Suvarna Kumaras and Dvipa Kumaras, and he rules and protects them as a great king, a commander-in-chief. (The abodes refer to the gods and goddesses who reside in them. Vaishramana is the Lokapala of all of them.)
370-The elder Akampita, having enjoyed a lifespan of seventy-eight years, became a Siddha, a Buddha, free from karmas, attained Nirvana, and became free from all suffering.
371-Returning from Uttarayana, the sun travels from the first mandala to the forty-first mandala, decreasing the day by seventy-eight parts of one sixty-first part of a muhurta and increasing the Rajnikshetra (night). Similarly, returning from Dakshinayana, it also travels, decreasing and increasing the measure of night and day.
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