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## Second Consideration: The Duration of a Female Animal in its Form (4)
From the fourth perspective, the duration of a female animal in its form is from a minimum of one moment to a maximum of one hundred palya-upamas more than the previous koti. The concept of one moment is according to the first order. The concept of the maximum is as follows: A human female or a female animal with the previous koti lifespan, after living in the same form for five or six times, is born as an unattached goddess in the Saudharma heaven with a lifespan of fifty palya-upamas. This happens twice, resulting in 50+50 = 100 palya-upamas. Adding the time of the previous koti and the time of the female animal or human female, the total duration is one hundred palya-upamas more than the previous koti. (4)
## (5)
From the fifth perspective, the duration of a female animal in its form is from a minimum of one moment to a maximum of one palya-upamas more than the previous koti. The concept of the minimum is the same as before. The concept of the maximum is as follows: A being, after living as a human female or a female animal with the previous koti lifespan for seven births, is born in the eighth birth as a female in the form of a female among the Devakaruyaadika, who have a lifespan of three palya-upamas. From there, after death, they are born as a goddess in the Saudharma heaven, in the lowest category of goddesses (with a lifespan of one palya-upamas). After this, there is definitely a Vedantar. Thus, the duration of a female animal in its form is one palya-upamas more than the previous koti, which is the evidence.
## Conclusion
Which of these five orders is appropriate can only be determined by someone with extraordinary knowledge or someone who has attained the highest level of scriptural knowledge. Since such a situation does not exist at present, the sutrakar has mentioned all five orders without making any decision of his own. We should understand all five orders as different perspectives, considering the truth to be only knowable by the Kevali.
## Duration of a Female Animal in its Form (2)
O Bhagavan! How long can a female animal remain in the form of a female animal?
Gautama! From the minimum, it can remain for an antarmukhuta, and from the maximum, it can remain for three palya-upamas more than the previous koti.
A water creature can remain from the minimum, an antarmukhuta, to the maximum, the previous koti.
Regarding the four-legged land creatures, it is the same as the female animal.
The sky creatures, from the minimum, an antarmukhuta, to the maximum, one palya-upamas more than the previous koti, are countless.