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Bhagavāna --Aupamika calculation is of two kinde-viz patyopama and sāgarapama.
Cautama :-- Bhagavan ! What is the nature of palyopama and sågaropama.
Bhagavāna Gautama! A paramāņu (an atom ) is an infinitismal portion that cannot be cut and separated by a very sharp cutting instrument
A mass of ananta (infinite ) paramānus
(atoms ) = One Ut Ślaksnaślaksņikā 8 Utólaksnaslaksnikā = 1 ślaksnaślaksnika 8 Ślaksnaślaksnika
| Urdhva-réņu. 8 Urdbva-réņu
1 Trasa-réņu. 8 Trasa-rénu
I Ratha-rèņu 8 Ratha-rèņu
I Vālāgra 8 Vālāgra
I Likṣā (nit; egg of a louse) 8 Likså
1 Yükā (louse) 8 Yükā
1 Yava-madhya (barley-corn) 8 Yava-madhya
1 Angula (breadth of a
thumb as a measuera, hasta 6 Angula
= 1 Pada Poot ( of men or
animals ) 12 Angula
| Vitasti=about nine inches 24 Angula
Hasta ( fore-arm or cubit
about 18 inches ) 45 Angula
= 1 Kukşi ( 2 hastas ). 49 Angula
= 1 Daņda; dhanu; ydpa Nālikā; aksa; muşala ( 4 hastas) 2000 Dhanu
1 Gavyuta-! Gāu=1 kośa. 4 Kosa
= 1 Yojana. If from a circular pit one yojana long and one yojona broad, resembling a large cup, filled densely with fine hairs of the length of innumerable parts of an angula, in such a way, that
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