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Samavāyāngasútra
simultaneously in the corresponding period, in south and north of Meru, in Bharat and Airāvat region, respectively, it is day time Seers take birth only at midnight. Therefore in Bharat and Airāvata region Seers do not take birth. B. There are thirty lac hellish dwellings in the first earth, three lacs in the fifth, ninety nine thousand nine hundred ninety five ( i.e. five minus one lac) in the sixth and only dwellings five in the seventh earth.Thus, the aggregate of hellish dwellings in these four earths is (30 lacs + 3 lacs +99995 +5= 34 lacs) thirty four lacs.
1. Abhayadevasūri, Sthānāńgasūtra and Samavāyāngasūtra, comm. on Samavāya 32, p. 60. 2. Ibid.
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