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Bhagavai 5:7:175-178
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5.175 paramānupoggalassa nam bhamte! amtaram kälao kevacciram hoi?
goyamā! jahannenam egam samayam, ukkosenam asamkhejjam kālam. The Topic of Duration of Interval for Paramānus and Skandhas (for reverting to the same state again)
How much time lapses before a paramāņu, O Lord! reverts to its state of paramānu? Gautama! one samaya in the minimum and a period of innumerable time in
the maximum. 5.176 duppaesiyassa ņam bhamte! khamdhassa amtaram kälao kevacciram hoi?
goyamā! jahanneņam egam samayam, ukkosenam anamtam kālam. evam jāva anamtapaesio. How much time lapses before a material cluster of two pradeśas, O Lord! reverts to the same state of cluster of two pradeśas? Gautama! one samaya in the minimum and a period of infinite time in the maximum. Similar description holds good for the material clusters of
three...... up to an infinite number of pradeśas. 5.177 egapaesogādhassa nam bhamte! poggalassa seyassa amtaram kālao kevacciram hoi? goyamā! jahannenam egam samayam, ukkosenam asamkhejjam kālam. evam jāva asamkhejjapaesogādhe. How much time lapses before a vibrating material entity occupying one space unit O Lord! reverts to the same state? Gautama! one samaya in the minimum and the period of innumerable time in the maximum. Similar description holds good for a vibrating material
cluster occupying (two) ...... up to an innumerable number of pradeśas. 5.178 egapaesogādhassa nam bhamte! poggalassa nireyassa amtaram kālao
kevacciram hoi? goyamā! jahanneņam egam samayam, ukkosenam āvaliyāe asamkhejjaibhāgam. evam jāva asamkhejjapaesogādhe. vanna-gamdha-rasa-phāsa-suhumapariņayabāyaraparinayānam-etesim jam ceva samcitthaņā tam ceva amtaram pi bhāniyavvam. How much time lapses before a material entity occupying one space-unit, O Lord! non-vibrating reverts to the same state? Gautama! one samaya in the minimum and the innumerablth part of an āvalikā in the maximum. Similar description holds good for a non-vibrating material cluster occupying (two pradeśas)..... up to an innumerable number of pradeśas. The duration of the time-lapse before the material entities revert to the same state, in respect of their colour, smell, taste, touch, subtle transformation and gross transformation is the same as the temporal
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