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Having attained the *Prajñāpanā Sūtra* (a Jain scripture), one may fall down and experience the female *veda* for a time, and then, after a period, be reborn as a deity in the heavens. There, that being is a male *vedī*, not a female *vedī*. Thus, the inferior time of the female *vedī* is proven to be only one time. (1) According to the first *prādeśa* (division), the explanation of the time measure of one hundred and ten *palya* units, which is greater than the *koṭi* of births, is as follows: A being, after experiencing five or six births in the *koṭi* of births of women or animals, is born as a deity in the *Īśāna* kalpa, in the form of a deity, with a lifespan of fifty-five *palya* units, in the state of an *apari-gṛhīta* (non-married) deity. When its lifespan is exhausted, it falls from there and is reborn as a woman or an animal, in the form of a woman, with a lifespan of a *koṭi* of births. After that, it is born again as a deity in the *Īśāna* kalpa, in the form of a deity, with a lifespan of fifty-five *palya* units, in the state of a *pari-gṛhīta* (married) deity. After that, it inevitably attains the second *veda*. Thus, it is proven that the female *vedī* continuously exists for one hundred and ten *palya* units, which is greater than the *koṭi* of births, along with the *Prajñāpanā Sūtra* *paryāya* (cycle). (2) According to the second *prādeśa*, the explanation of eighteen *palya* units, which is greater than the *koṭi* of births, is as follows: A being, as before, after experiencing five or six births in the *koṭi* of births of women or animals, is born twice in the *Īśāna* heaven, in the form of a deity, with a lifespan of fifty-five *palya* units, in the state of a *pari-gṛhīta* deity, not an *apari-gṛhīta* deity. In such a situation, the superior time-state of the female *vedī* is proven to be continuously eighteen *palya* units, which is greater than the *koṭi* of births. (3) According to the third *prādeśa*, the explanation of the time measure of fourteen *palya* units, which is greater than the *koṭi* of births, is as follows: A being is born twice in the *Saudharmā* heaven, in the form of a deity, with a lifespan of seven *palya* units, in the state of a *pari-gṛhīta* deity. Thus, with fourteen *palya* units from the two births as deities, and the *koṭi* of births, which is greater than the *koṭi* of births, of women or animals, the existence of the female *vedī* is proven, and the continuous time-state of the female *vedī* is proven to be fourteen *palya* units, which is greater than the *koṭi* of births. (4) According to the fourth *prādeśa*, the explanation of the time measure of one hundred *palya* units, which is greater than the *koṭi* of births, is as follows: A being is born twice in the *Saudharmā* heaven, in the form of a deity, with a lifespan of fifty *palya* units, in the state of an *apari-gṛhīta* deity, as mentioned before. Then, the superior time-state of the female *vedī* is proven to be continuously one hundred *palya* units, which is greater than the *koṭi* of births. (5) According to the fifth *prādeśa*, the explanation of the time measure of *palya* units, which is greater than the *koṭi* of births, is as follows: While wandering through various births, any being can continuously remain a female *vedī* for a maximum of *palya* units, which is greater than the *koṭi* of births, but no more. Because, after experiencing seven births in the *koṭi* of births of women or animals, a being is born in the form of a woman in the *Deva-kuru* and other realms, with a lifespan of three *palya* units. After that, it is reborn as a deity in the *Saudharmā* heaven, in the form of a deity, with an inferior lifespan. Then, that being inevitably attains the second *veda*. From this perspective, the superior time-state of the female *vedī* is proven to be continuously *palya* units, which is greater than the *koṭi* of births. 1. *Prajñāpanā Sūtra* *Malayā* *Vṛtti*, folio 384-385.