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LECTURE XXXIV.
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Half a muhûrta is the shortest, and thirty-three Sâgarôpamâs plus one muhůrta is the longest duration of the white Lêsyâ. (39)
I have described above the duration of the Lêsyâs generally; I shall now detail their duration in the four walks of mundane existence?. (40)
The shortest duration of the grey Lêsyâ (of a denizen of hell) is ten thousand years, the longest three Sâgarôpamâs plus one Palyôpamâ and part of an Asamkhyêya. (41)
The shortest duration of the blue Lêsyâ (of a denizen of hell) is three Sâgarôpamâs plus one Palyôpamâ and a part of an Asamkhyêya, the longest ten Sâgarôpamâs plus one Palyôpamâ and a part of an Asamkhyêya. (42)
The shortest duration of the black Lêsyâ (of a denizen of hell) is ten Sagarðpamâs plus one Palyôpamâ and a part of an Asamkhyêya, the longest thirty-three Sagarôpamâs. (43)
I have described the duration of the Lêsyâs of denizens of hell; I shall now describe that of animals, men, and gods. (44)
The duration of any of the Lêsyâs except the best (viz. white one) is less than a muhůrta for (the lowest organisms), animals, and men”. (45)
Half a muhûrta is the shortest duration of the white Lêsyâ (of animals and men), and the longest a Krore of former years less nine years. (46)
1 Viz. as denizens of hell, brutes, men, and gods. Only the three first Lêsyâs lead to being born in hell.
9 The consequence of this statement appears to be that at the expiration of the Lêsyâ a new one is produced. The commentators, however, are not explicit on this head.
8 About the former years, see above, p. 16, note 1.
