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Regressive half-cycle
Longest section
ankaras born
-All 24 Tirthankara
Heappearce uf Tirthankara
21000
463 B.C. Jambu Last
Liberated
years
P
ressive half-cycle
2000 A.D.
Lord Paarsvanath, the 23" Tirthankara
(Digambara image), Leeds, UK
One Jain universal temporal cycle (clock-wise) and circular histogram of the level of happiness and misery (h=happiness, m=misery in shaded area): a broken arc indicates very large periods. The regressive half-cycle starts from the point P.
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