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3. That the country of Bharat, our India, and an equal portion on the other side of the globe called Airavartta, are alone subject to a depopulating catastrophe at the end of a great cycle of years. The rest of the terrestrial circle, either inhabited by Mlechchhas, Barbarians, or by Yugalas, hermaphrodites not exposed to toil, or the subjects of virtue and vice, remains unchanged.
4. That shortly after the desolation of the abode of man, above mentioned, colonies of Yugalas came from their own proper continent to repeople the waste territories, and from change of situation and manner of living become men, and give rise to a new race of human beings. The Jains, however, leave unexplained how these Yugalas began to exist, and hide themselves amid the darkness of their prime absurdity-an infinite succession of finite beings
5. They maintain, like the Brahmans, that there is a number of heavens and hells, for temporary rewards and punishments. The gods whom they allow to possess several of these heavens are but beings, who were once men or animals, enjoying the reward of inferior kinds of merit, and who must
