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duration of their continuing of remaining in the same state.
5.179 saddaparinayassa nam bhamte! poggalassa amtaram kālao kevacciram hoi? goyamā! jahanneṇam egam samayam, ukkoseṇam asamkhejjam kālam.
Bhagavai 5:7:175-180
How much time, O Lord! lapses before a material entity which has been transformed in the form of sound reverts to the same state?
Gautama! one samaya in minimum and a period of innumerable time in the maximum.
5.180 asaddaparinayassa nam bhamte! poggalassa amtaram kalao kevacciram hoi? goyamā! jahanneṇam egam samayam, ukkoseṇam avaliyäe asamkhejjaibhāgam. How much time, O Lord! lapses before a material entity which has been transformed as non-sound reverts to the same state?
Gautama! one samaya in the minimum and the innumerableth part of an ävalikā in the maximum.
Bhāṣya
1. Sutras 175-180
In the previous dialogue, the laws governing the duration of occupation of space-points by an ultimate atom and the cluster were propounded. In the present dialogue, the laws governing the interval (antara-kāla) are stated. Interval means the lapse of time between the present state of transformation and a similar state in the future. The transformations in the intervening period are different from the previous transformation; for instance, a paramāņu, abandoning its state of paramāņu, transforms in the state of a cluster and again transforms into the state of paramānu. The intervening period here is the time that lapsed during its transformation as the cluster. Similarly a material cluster of two pradesas transforms into clusters of three pradesas etc. and also may transform as an atom and finally reverts to the state of a cluster of two pradeśas. Here the intervening period is technically called the interval of the cluster of two pradeśas. A cluster can pass through many states from the state of the cluster of two pradeśas to the state of the cluster of an infinite number of pradesas. It means that the number of clusters formed during this period is infinite. The maximum duration of each cluster is a period of innumerable time. So the interval (time of lapse) of a cluster of two pradešas (reverting to its orginal state) is a period of infinite time."
The sutras 170-171 give the avasthāna-kāla i.e., the temporal durations of the material entities, with vibration and devoid of vibration, continuing to remain in the same state. Comparing them with their anatara-kāla, it is found that)-The temporal duration of a material entity devoid of vibration is equal to the interval of the material entity with vibration and the temporal duration of a material entity with vibration is equal to the interval of a material entity without vibration. The temporal duration (avasthāna-kāla) of a material entity with one unit of black colour, smell etc. is same as its interval (antara-kāla). See the following table.
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