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Bhagavat 5:8:208-224
atthārasa räimdiyāim cattālīsa ya muhuttā, māhimde cauvīsam räimdiyāim vīsa ya muhutta, bambhaloe pamcacattālīsam räimdiyāim, lamtae nauim räimdiyāim, mahāsukke saṭṭhim rāimdiyasayam, sahassare do räimdiyasayāim, āṇayapāṇa-yaṇam, samkhejjä mäsä, äraṇaccuyaṇam samkhejjäin väsäim, evam gevejjadevāṇam, vijaya-vejayamta-jayamta-aparäjiyāṇam asamkhejjäim vāsasahassāim, savvaṭṭhasiddhe paliovamassa samkhejjaibhāgo. evam bhāniyavvvam-vaddhamti, hāyamti jahjaṇṇeṇam ekkam samayam, ukkoseṇam āvaliyāe asamkhejjaibhāgam, avaṇṭhiyāṇam jam bhaniyam.
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All the remaining categories of souls (sometime) increase and (sometime) decrease in number like the one-sensed beings. The varieties of the constancy of number are as follows: the coagulated five sensed sub-humans--two antarmuhurtas, the five-sensed sub-humans born of womb-twenty-four muhurttas. Forest gods, Luminous gods, Saudharma and Iśāna gods-fortyeight muhurttas Sanatkumāra gods-eighteen days and nights and fortymuhürttas. Mahendra gods-twenty-four days and nights and twenty muhurttas. Brahmaloka gods-forty-five days and nights, Lāntaka gods-ninety days and nights, Mahaśukra gods-one hundred and sixty days and nights. Sahasrara gods-two hundred days and nights, Anata and Prāṇata gods-numerable months, Arana and Acyuta gods-numerable years; in the same way Graiveyaka gods and Vijaya, Vaijayanta, Jayanta and Aparajita gods- innumerable thousand years and Sarvärthasiddha numerableth part of palyopama. This whole subject is to be described thusthe duration of increase and decrease of the souls is one samaya in the minimum and innumerableth part of avalikä in maximum and duration of constancy is one samaya in minimum and maximum is as described above.
5.223 siddha nam bhamte! kevaiyam kālam vaḍdhamti?
goyama! jahanneṇam ekkam samayam, ukkosenam aṇṭha samaya.
O Lord! for how long the liberated souls increase in number? Gautama! one samaya (indivisible time-unit) in minimum and eight samayas in maximum.
5.224 kevaiyam kalam avaṇṭṭhiyā?
govama! jahanneṇam ekkam, samayam ukkosenam chammäsä.
O Lord! how long do the liberated souls remain constant in number? Gautama! one samaya in the minimum and six months in the maximum.
Bhāṣya
1. Sūtras 208-224
The soul is a fundamental substance. It is a sentient entity. It can not be transformed into non-sentient entities; neither the non-sentient substances can be transformed into sentient entity. This is the eternal cosmic law.' It means that the
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