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Samavāyāngasūtra
तीसं सागरोवमाई ठिती पण्णत्ता। ते णं देवा तीसाए अद्धमासेहिं 76आणमंति वा पाणमंति वा ऊससंति वा नीससंति वा जाव तीसाए वाससहस्सेहिं आहारट्टे समुप्पज्जति]।
Divinities' longevity, at the most, in the top of the upper [paradise] Graiveyaka, is expounded thirty ocean-similes. The longevity, at the most, of those gods, manifested in the top of the middle [paradise] Graiveyaka, is expounded thirty ocean-similes. These gods breath in or breath out, exhale and inhale once in every thirty fortnights and feel hunger after thirty thousand years.
30[4] संतेगतिया भवसिद्धिया जीवाजे तीसाए भवग्गहणेहिं सिज्झिस्संति जाव सव्वदुक्खाणं अंतं करेस्संति।
Among the fit to be liberated ones, the few will liberate, up to will annihilate the entire miseries (free from the cycle of re-birth) in subsequent thirty re-births.
76. आणमंति वा ४ जाव तीसाए मु० विना। आणमंति वा पाणमंति वा उस्ससंति वा नीससंति वा तेसि ण देवाणं तीसाए मु०॥
Notes .
A The thirty cases of deluding karmas are also found in Chedasūtra Daśāśrutaskandha, with variation in the sequence of first five gāthās. Ach. Mahāprajña? has mentioned that this theme has also been treated in Praśnavyākaraṇavrtti and Uttarādhyayanavštti.
1. Illustrated Sri Chedasūtra, Delhi, pp.126-135. 2. Samavão, Ladnun, p. 162-163, footnote 1.
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