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Bhagaval 5:8:225-233
For one samaya (indivisible time-unit) in the minimum and the innumerableth part of avalikä in the maximum.
5.230 kevatiyam kālam sovacaya-sāvacayā?
evam ceva.
For how long do the infernals undergo accumulation and diminution? For one samaya (indivisible time-unit) in the minimum and the innumerableth part of an avalikä in the maximum.
5.231 kevatiyam kālam niruvacaya-niravacaya?
goyama! jahanneṇam ekkam samayam, ukkoseṇam bārasa muhutta.
egimdiya davve sovacaya-savacaya savvaddham. sesa savve sovacayā vi, sāvacayā vi, sovacaya-sāvacayā vi, jahanneṇam ekkam samayam, ukkoseṇam ūvaliyāe asamkhajjaibhāgam, avaṭṭhiehim vakkamtikālo bhāniyavvo.
For how long do they (infernals) remain without accumulation and without. diminution?
Gautama! for one samaya (indivisible time-unit) in the minimum and twelve muhurttas in the maximum.
All the one-sensed beings undergo accumulation and diminution for all periods of time. All the remaining living beings undergo accumulation, diminution; and also undergo accumulation and diminution; the length of time for this is one samaya (indivisible time-unit) in the minimum, and innumerableth part of the avalikä in the maximum. The period of constancy is to be described like the period of the absence of new birth (see 5.222). 5.232 siddha nam bhamte! kevatiyam kālam sovacayā?
gayamā! jahaṇeṇam egam samayam, ukoseņam attha samayā.
O Lord! for how long the liberated souls undergo accumulation?
Gautama! for one samaya (indivisible time-unit) in the minimum and eight samayas in the maximum.
5.233 kevatiyam kālam tiruvacaya-niravacaya?
jahaneṇam ekkam samayam, ukoseṇam cha māsā.
For how long they are without accumulation and without diminution? For one samaya in the minimum and six months in the maximum.
Bhāṣya
1. Sütras 225-233
In the present dialogue, there are four alternatives about the accumulation and diminution of souls. Accumulation means increase, diminution means decrease. The absence of accumulation and diminution is constancy. What then is the difference between the previous and this dialogue? The author of the Vṛtti has raised this
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