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process of emptying the store represents the number called vävahārija uddhārapalio vama. Ten koḍākoḍī of this number is the vāvahāriya uddhāra sagarovama (sutta No. 372, verse 107). Now if the above hair-tips are each divided in innumerable parts, and then taken out each part at one instant, the number of instants thus required represents one suhuma uddhāra paliovama. Ten koḍākoḍi of this number is called suhuma uddhārasagarovama. (sutta No. 374, verse 108). By the numbers represented by these suhuma uddhāra-paliovama and suhuma uddhāra-sagarovama, the number of islands and oceans are counted, which is given as 23 times the uddhara-sagaro vama (sutta No. 376).
77. The addhapaliovama is similarly divided as suhuma and vāvaḥāriya. In the case of these stores, each hair-tip or part of hair-tip is taken out after an interval of one hundred years, which makes these numbers represent much higher numbers (sutta No. 379). The sagarovamas in these case are to be understood in the same manner as in the case of the uddhārapaliovama. The longevity of the hellbeings, animals, human beings, and gods is measured by the suhuma addha paliovamas and suhuma addhāsāgarovamas (sutta No. 382).
78. Some of the examples of longevity given in sutta No. 383-391 are broadly as follows:
Class of beings
Longevity
Neraiya
(i) Rayanappabhā (ii) Sakkarappabhā (iii) Valuyappabhā (iv) Pamkappabha (v) Dhumappabhā (vi) Tamappabhā (vii) Tamatamā Deva (Bhavanavāsī) (i) Asurakumāra
Asurakumari devi And so on.
Tirikkha
Puḍhavīkāiya Vanassaikaiya
Beimdiya
Teimdiya
Pamcimdiya
minimum
10,000 years
1 sägarovama
3 sagarovamas 7 sagarovamas 10 sägarovamas 17 sāgarovamas 22 sāgarovamas
10,000 years
10,000 years
amtomuhutta
amtomuhutta
amtomuhutta
amtomuhutta
amtomuhutta
maximum
1 sägarovama 3 sagarovamas
7 ságarovamas 10 sāgarovamas 17 sagarovamas 22 sägarovamas 33 sägarovamas
1 sagarovamas +
extra
4 paliovamas
22,000 years 10,000 years
12 years 49 days
3 paliovamas
