Shraman Bhagvana Mahavira Part 1

SR No.: 008001
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Ratnaprabhvijay, D P Thaker
Publisher: Parimal Publication
Publication Year: 1989
Total Pages: 650
Language: English, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_English, Biography, History, & Religion
File Size: 15 MB

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During the commencement of the Utsarpini kāla and the end of the avasarpiņi kāla, the condition of the world is extremely bad. With the advance of the utsarpiņi kāla-as the name indicates-everything as time passes on, progresses steadily at first towards the higher and then towards the highest level and there is an ever-growing evolution of piety truth etc and a prosperous condition of the world.
During the avasarpiņi kāla, piety, truth, and dharma (the practice of virtuous qualities) go on decreasing, and there is a prevalence of famines, draughts, pestilences with their attending devastation, and misery, until in the end chaos and confusion reign all over the world.
The first ara (division) named Susama-susama of the present avasarpiņi kāla extended over four kotākoți sāgaropama years. The second ara named Susama extended over three kota koti sāgaropama years. The third, named Susama-duṣamā, was of two kota-koti sāgaropama years. The fourth named Dusamasuṣamā was of the duration of forty-two thousand years less in one koṭā-koţi sagaropama years (one koṭā-koți years minus fortytwo thousand years). The fifth ara (the present age named Dusama-of which nearly twenty-four hundred and seventy-three years have passed is of twenty-one thousand years duration. The last (the sixth) ara named Duşama-duṣama of the present avasarpikāla, will be of twenty-one thousand years' duration.
In the Utsarpiņi kala, the order of aras is the reverse.
In the avasarpiņi kāla, the first ara is the longest and the last (sixth) is the shortest. The increase and decrease in happiness, wealth, prosperity, health, duration of life, piety, virtue, dharma, and in illusion, temptation, sorrow, unhappiness, and misery, and also in all the things of the world, synchronize with the increase and decrease in the duration of these aras. The duration of one Kāla-cakra (cycle of time) as included in the utsarpiņi kāla and avasarpiņi kāla is twenty koṭā-koti sagaropama years.
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