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Bhagavai 5:8:208-216
offered obeisance, he asked him thus: do the number of souls, O Lord! increase, decrease or remain constant? Gautama! the number of souls do not increase, do not decrease but remains
constant. 5.209 neraiyā ņam bhamte! kim vaddhamti? hāyamti? avatthiya?
goyamā! neraiya vaddhamti vi, hāyamti vi, avatthiyā vi. Does a number of the infernals, O Lord! increase, decrease or remain constant? Gautama! the number of infernals (sometime) increase, or (sometime)
decrease or (sometime) remain constant also. 5.210 jahā neraiyā evam jāva vamāniyā.
Like the infernals are also to be described the categories of souls ..... up to
the Vaimāņika gods. 5.211 siddhā nam bhamte! pucchā?
goyamā! siddhā vaddhamti, no hāyamti, avatthiyā vi. Does the number of liberated souls, O Lord! ......... query. Gautama! the liberated souls (sometime) increase in number, they do not
decrease, (sometime) they also remain constant in number. 5.212 jīvä nam bhamte! kevatiyam kälam avatthiyā?
goyamā! savvadham. For how long, O Lord! the number of souls remain constant? Gautama! always. 5.213 neraiyā ņam bhamte! kevatiyam kālam vaddhamti?
goyamā! jahannenam egam samayam, ukkosenam āvaliyäe asamkhejjaibhāgam. For how long, O Lord! do the infernals increase in number? Gautama! in the minimum, for one samaya; in the maximum, for the
innumerableth part of an āvalikā. 5.214 evam hīyamti vi.
Their number decrease also in the same way. 5.215 neraiya nam bhamte! kevatiyam kālam avatthiyā?
goyamā! jahannenam egam samayam, ukkosenam cauvīmsa muhuttā. For how long, O Lord! do the number of infernals remain constant in number? Gautama! for one time unit in the minimum, for the twenty-four muhürttas
in the maximum. 5.216 evam sattasu vi pudhavisu 'vaddhamti, hāyamti' bhāniyavvam navaram
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