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[300] [Prajñāpanasūtra [341-3 U.] Gautama, the inferior Antarmūhurta is less than seventeen Sagaropama, and the superior Antarmūhurta is less than twenty-two Sagaropama. / 342. [1] Adhasaptamapuḍhavineraiyāṇam Bhanta! Kevatiyam kālam ṭhiti paṇṇata? Go'yamā! Jahṣṇeṇam bāvisam sāgarovama'i, ukkosenaṁ te'tti'sam sāgarovama'i. [342-1 Pra.] Bhagavan! Adhasapta (tamas-tamaḥ-prabhā) earth's Nairāyikas' state is said to be of how much time? [342-1 U.] Gautama! The inferior is twenty-two Sagaropama, and the superior is thirty-three Sagaropama. [2] Apjattataya'dhasaptamapuḍhavineraiyāṇam Bhanta! Kevatiyam kālam ṭhiti paṇṇata? Go'yamā! Jahṇṇeṇ vi antomuhuttaṁ, ukkosena vi antomuhuttaṁ / |342-2 Pra.] Bhagavan! Aparyāptak-Adhasapta (tamas-tamaḥ-prabhā) earth's Nairāyikas' state is said to be of how much time? [342-2 U.] Gautama! The inferior is Antarmūhurta, and the superior is also Antarmūhurta. [3] Pajjattataya'dhasaptamapuḍhavineraiyāṇam Bhanta! Kevatiyam kālam ṭhiti paṇṇata? Go'yamā! Jahṇṇṇaṁ bāvisam sāgarovama'iṁ antomuhuttūṇā'i, ukkosenaṁ te'tti'sam sāgarovama'i antomuhṛttūṇā'i. [342-3 Pra.] Bhagavan! Paryāptak-Adhasapta earth's Nairāyikas' state is said to be of how much time? [342-3 U.] Gautama! The inferior is less than twenty-two Sagaropama Antarmūhurta, and the superior is less than thirty-three Sagaropama Antarmūhurta. Discussion: The state of Nairāyikas is described - In the present eight sūtras (from sū. 335 to 342), the state of general Narakas, the Narakas residing in the seven Naraka-bhūmis, and then their Aparyāptakas and Paryāptakas are separately described. / Aparyāptadashā and Paryāptadashā - Like other worldly beings, Nairāyikas also have two states - Aparyāptadashā and Paryāptadashā. Aparyāptadashā is of two types - by attainment and by cause. / Naraka, Deva, and Tiryanch and Manushya with an age of countless years are Aparyāptak only by cause, not by attainment. / They should be considered Aparyāptak by cause only for some time in the Upapāta-kāla. The remaining Tiryanch or Manushya can be Aparyāptak in the Upapāta-kāla by both attainment and cause. / Here, it should be noted that the Aparyāptak state lasts only up to the inferior and superior Antarmūhurta. After that, the Paryāptadashā comes. Therefore, by subtracting the Antarmūhurta state of Aparyāptadashā from the general state, the remaining state becomes that of Paryāptakas. For example, in the first Naraka-pṛthvī, the general state is ten thousand years inferior and one Sagaropama superior. Out of this, the Aparyāptadashā...