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Bhagavai 5:8:208-224
The viraha-kāla of other living beings is giving in the following chart -
Interval The five sensed subhumans born of womb | Twelve muhurttas
Soul
Agglutinated humans
Twenty-four muhūrttas
Humans born of womb
Twelve muhūrttas
Twenty-four muhurttas
Mansion gods, Forest gods, Luminous gods and Saudharma, iśāna
Sanatkumāra
Mahendra
Brahma
Lāntaka
Nine days and nights twenty muhūrttas Twelve days and nights ten muhürttas Twenty two and a half days and nights Forty-five days and nights Eighty days and nights Hundred days and nights Numerable month
Mahāśukra
Sahasrara Anata-prānata
Arana-acyuta
Numerable years
Numerable years period of hundred
Bottom graiveyakas Middle graiveyakas Top graiveyakas
Numerable period of thousand years
Numerable lakh years
Four Anuttara vimānas
Innumerable thousand years
Sarvāthsiddhi vimāna
Numerable part of palyopama
Liberated souls
Six months
The period of equation of births and deaths is equal to the viraha-kāla and so, when these two periods are added together, they give the period of constancy of the number of these beings.
1. Thānam, 10.1. 2. Panna. 6.1.6. 3. Bha. Vp. 5.215_saptasvapi prthivîşu dvādaśa muhūrttān yāvanna ko'pyutpadyate vā, utkrstato
virahakälasyaivamrüpatvāt, anyesu punardvādaśamuhürtteşu yāvanta utpadyante tävanta evodvarttanta ityevam caturvimsatimuhürttän yāvannärakāņāmekaparimāņatvādavasthitatvam
vrddhihānyorabhāva ityarthah. 4. Ibid., 5.245-evam ratnaprabhādisu yo yatrotpādodvarttanāvirahakālascaturciméatimuhürttādiko
vyutkräntipade'bhihitah sa tatra teşu tattulyasya samasankhayānämutpädodvarttanäkälasya milanad dviguņitaḥ sannavasthitakālo'sata catvārimsaumuhürttādikah sütrokte bhavati, virahakälasca
pratipadamavasthaänakālärddhabhūtah svayamabhyuhya iti. 5. Panna. 6.29.
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