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by taking one particle every year from the collected mass of the entire sand of all the rivers, form one Sarah Pramana or Manasa-sara Such three Sarah or Månasas constitute One Maha kalpa. Eighty-four hundred thousand Maha-kalpas form One Mahă-mănasa.
When a living being is on the way to Moksa (Salvation), he comes out from ananta Jiva-rási (Nigoda), and he is torn in the upper déva-loka with an age-limit of one Mānasa. Having enjoyed divine happiness there, he is born as a human being for the first time. Then, he is born in middle déva-loka with an age limit of one Mānasa and having enjoy divine happiness there he born as a human being for the second time. Then he is born in lower déva loka with an age limit of one Mānasa, and descending from there he, is born as a human being for the third time.
Then, becoming a god in Upper Manasottara Déva-loka with an age-limit of Manasottara or Mahākalpa, he is born as a human being for the fourth time
Then becoming a god in Middle Mánasottara Déva-loka, he, is born as a human being for the fifth time
Then, after becoming a god in the Lower Manasottara Déva loka, he his born as a human being for the sixth time.
After finishing the sixth human bhava, he is born as a young god in Brahma-deva-loka wtth an a e-limit of ten Sägaropams and having enjoyed celestial pleasures for ten sågaras, he is born as a human being for the seventh time During the seventh human existence he takes Diksa during boy-hood, and after leading a religious life, he does seven incarnations one after the other, for twenty-two twenty-one, twenty nineteen, eighteen, seventeen, and sixteen years respectively.
Having lived for one hundred thirty-three years during these seven incarnations, the holy soul destroys all Karmas and
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