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Bhagavai 6:8:155-160 of samayas (indivisible units of time) of sāgaropamas (subtle 242 sukşma uddhāra transfer-ocean-measured period), which is exactly equal to the total number of continents and oceans), transformations (which constitute the continents and oceans) and all souls that have taken birth there in the past. (See Jivā. 3.972-975).
Bhāşya
1. Sūtras 155-160
According to Jain geography, in the middle region of the cosmos (horizental world), there are innumerable (continents and) oceans, the Lavana Ocean being the first and the Svayambhūramana Ocean, the last. There are flow-tides and ebb-tides (agitated water) in the Lavana Ocean; in the external oceans which are outside the region of the empirical) time (i.e., where the empirical time due to the motion of the luminous bodies like sun, moon etc. prevails), the water level always remains the same (or even), and un-agitated, there being no tides. There takes place rain in the Lavana Ocean, but the external oceans are devoid of rain. The souls that have water as their birth-place take birth and die in the water of the ocean. (Also, the pudgala (i.e., material clusters of water) get produced and destroyed).
For detailed information about the innumerable continents and oceans in the middle-region, see Jīvājīvābhigame, 3/972-975. For the word Volattamāna, etc., refer to the Bhāsya on Bha. 1/312-313.
Text 6.161 sevam bhamte! sevam bhamte! tti.
That is so, O Lord! That is so, O Lord!
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