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73 The Jains divide time into Avasarpini and Utsarpini, and consider the whole period. completed in twenty cötes of cötes of Sagara or 2,000,000,000,000,000 oceans of years. The Buddhists seem to have derived their four great and eighty smaller kalpas from the Yugas and kalpas of the Brahmans.
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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