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Verse 44
Fig.-2 - Worldly Time-Cycle (Applicable to Bharata and Airavata Regions)
(not to scale)
Descending half-cı
a half-cycle
ng half-cycle
Ascending half-cy
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Ascending (utsarpiņi) half-cycle 1) duşamā-duşamā, of 21000 years
duration; 2) duşamā, of 21000 years duration; 3) duşamā-suşamā, of 1 kotikoti
sāgaropama minus 42000 years
duration; 4) suşamā-duşamă, of 2 kotikoti
sägaropama duration; 5) suşamă, of 3 kotikoti sāgaropama
duration; and 6) suşamā-suşamā, of 4 kotikoti
sägaropama duration.
Descending (avasarpiņi) half-cycle 1) suşamā-suşamā, of 4 kotikoti
sāgaropama duration; 2) suşamă, of 3 kotikoti sāgaropama
duration; 3) suşama-duşamă, of 2 kotikoti
sāgaropama duration; 4) duşamā-suşamā, of 1 kotikoti
sāgaropama minus 42000 years
duration; 5) duşamā, of 21000 years duration; and 6) duşamā-dusamă, of 21000 years
duration ........................
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