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Bhagavai 3:3:149-150
Text Pamattāpamattaddhā-padam 3.149 pamattasamjayassa nam bhamte! pamattasamjame vattamānassa savvā vi
ya nam pamattaddhā kālao kevacciram hoi? mamdiaputtā! egam jīvam paducca jahannenam ekkam samayam, ukkosenam
desūnā puvvakodī, nānājīve paducca savvadham. The Topic of the Duration of the Remiss and the Non-Remiss What is the temporal dimension, O Lord! of the path of the remiss (ascetic) stationed in the stage of self-restraint with remissness? With reference to a single soul, O Manditaputra, the minimum temporal dimension is one time-unit, the maximum temporal dimension is a little (8.25 years) less than one purva-koti (=84000002 x 107 years). With reference to
many souls, it is entire time-dimension, which is without beginning and end. 3.150 appamattasamjayassa ņam bhamte! appamattasamjame vattamāṇassa savvā
vi ya nam appamattaddhā kälao kevacciram hoi ? mamdiaputtā! egam jīvam paducca jahannenam amtomuhuttam, ukkosenam desūņā puvvakodi. nānājīve paducca savvadham. What is the temporal dimension, O Lord! of the path of the non-remiss (ascetic) stationed in the stage of self-restraint devoid of remissness? With reference to a single soul, O Manditaputra! The minimum temporal dimension is one intra-hour and the maximum temporal dimension is a little (8.25 years) less than one purva-koți. With reference to many souls, it is entire time-dimension, which is without beginning and end.
Bhāsya 1. Sūtras 149-50
In the present dialogue, the temporal dimensions of the ascetic stationed in the sixth stage, i.e., self-restraint with remissness and the seventh stage, i.e., self-restraint without remissness have been considered. An eight years and three months old boy has been accepted as qualified for monkhood.' The maximum life-span of a human is one purva-koti. As such, the maximum temporal dimension of sāmāyikacāritra (preliminary initiation into monkhood) is = one purva-koți less 8.25 years, the minimum temporal dimension being one time-unit.
According to the Vrtti, this is possible only on the death immediately after one time-unit of adopting monkhood. This however is only a conditional description from the standpoint of treatises on the doctrine of karma. At the very beginning of his initiation, a monk attains self-restraint without remissness. Afterwards he attains the stage of self-restraint with remissness. The death may occur in the first timeunit immediately after entering into the stage of self-restraint with remissness from
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