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Bhagavai 6:7:133-134
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{(3.3 x 10) x innumerable) years.
Table of Uncountable Time-units
1 Sūkṣma addha palyopama = 3.3 x 10% uncountable samayas 1 Sūkṣma uddhāra palyopama = 3.3 x 103 uncountable years. According to Digambara Tradition"
Till now, in the description of cylindrical pit in the Śvetämbara tradition, the calculation of yojana, taken into account, was based on utsedha angula but here while dealing the conception of the Digambara tradition, it is to be understood in accordance with pramäṇa angula.
I pramāṇa angula = 500 utsedha angulas.
.. Volume of the cylindrical pit
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=413,452,630,308,203,177,749,512,192,000,000,000,000,000 cube of hair-tips of humans of uttama bhoga region.
4.13 x 10 cube of hair-tips of humans of uttama bhoga region. approximately.19
In this way, the number of hair-tips filled in the cylindrical pit = 4.13 x 10".
The hair-tips are taken out of it in three ways. On the basis of these different ways, palyopamas are of three types:
1. Vyavahāra palyopama
Every hundred years, a single hair-tip is removed from the cylindrical pit. The total period of time that elapses for emptying it completely is called vyavahāra palyopama. This is just a formal palyopama because its value is under countable years. Removing a single hair-tip every 100 years, pit will get emptied in 4.13 x 10" x 100 years. Therefore vyavahāra palyopama = 4.13 x 10 x 100 years.
2. Uddhara palyopama
Each hair-tip (as described above) is cut into a number of pieces equivalent to the number of samayas in uncountable crore years and the cylindrical vessel or pit is made cram-full with these hair-pieces. Every samaya, a single piece is removed from it. The total period of time that elapses for emptying it completely is called uddhära palyopama. In this way
1 uddhāra palyopama = (4.13 x 10") x (number of samayas in uncountable crore years) samayas
If the number of samayas in one year be a,, and uncountable years be
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