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Samavāya forty-two
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विमाणपविभत्तीए बितिए वग्गे बायालीसं उद्देसणकाला पण्णत्ता। एगमेगाए 10णं ओसप्पिणीए पंचम-छट्ठीतो समातो बायालीसं वाससहस्साइंकालेणं पण्णत्तातो। एगमेगाएपणं 12उस्सप्पिणीए 13पढम-बितियातो समातो बायालीसं वाससहस्साइं कालेणं पण्णत्तातो।
Forty two thousand snakes bear the internal shores of the ocean Lavaņa. Forty-two lectures (uddeśanakāla) are expounded in the major (mahālikā) vimānapravibhakti's second section (varga). The sum of the duration of fifth and sixth (spokes-ārās] of each descending half-cycle is expounded forty two thousand years. [Similarly) sum of the duration of first and second (spokesārās] of each aescending half-cycle is expounded forty-two thousand years.
10. uf tiff to soll 11. Of Tif Toll 12. JH yo fantil 13. afrerit soll
Notes A. The span of Mahāvīra as non-omniscient (chadmastha) and omniscient was twelve year six and half months and thirty years, respectively. He attained omniscience on the tenth of bright half of the month of Vaišākha and attained liberation on the moonless night of the dark half of the month Kārttika. In this way, the duration of Mahāvīra comes twenty-nine years five month and twenty days and total span including that of his state of non-omniscience is forty-two years five days. Hence the period is reckoned as little over forty-two years.
Mahavira's span as a monk is mentioned as forty years in Paryusaņākalpa implying that the stretch over forty-two years is not taken into account.
1. Abhayadevasūri, p. 66-67.,
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