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Samavāya fifty-five
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moon with karana (half lunar day) Nāga, the tenth. In the morning Lord preached fifty-five chapters each related with the auspicious frution of virtuous karmas and inauspicious fruition of sinful karmas'. B. The aggregate of the hellish abodes in first and second earth is thirty lacs and twenty-five lacs respectively. C. The break up of the total sub-species of three types of karmas, viz. faithobscuring, physique-making and age-determining karma is fifty-five (9 +42 + 4 = 55).
1. Abhayadevasūri, p.72 2. Ibid.
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