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## Gatha 396-403
· · Jnanamarga-ranaa/461
It should be said that time increases as the field-alternatives pass, because there is no contradiction in both types of growth.
• The inferior time should be reduced by a small amount from the lesser of the two pravalis, and the remaining should be thinned out. The inferior dhana-amul should be divided into equal parts and given to each time. The alternatives of growth, which are both existent and non-existent, should be considered as a fraction of an angula, or a fraction of a number, only in the passing of the field-alternatives. Time increases, and this should be considered as a similar pattern as before. In this way, the gods residing in the Uttara Vimana know the entire Lokanali in relation to the Palpa, which is an infinitesimal fraction of the time, and in relation to the Dhotra. Therefore, by thinning out the infinitesimal fraction of the Palpa, which is devoid of inferior time, and by dividing the inferior praadi pradhvana, which is less than the inferior field, into equal parts and giving it to each form, an infinitesimal fraction of the entire Lokanali is obtained for each form. Here, it should not be said that time increases as the field-alternatives pass, because this would lead to the implication of the absence of the lower field and time. Therefore, it should be said that time increases as an infinitesimal fraction of a ghana-angula, or a fraction of a ghana-angula, or a ghana-angula, or a square of a ghana-angula, or a jagani, or a jagat-pratar, or an infinite number of jagat-pratars pass. Therefore, it is proven that there is no contradiction in the origin of the superior field and time.
Now, this should be taken up until the two extremes of dravya, field, time, and bhava achieve equal growth.
Doubt- What is meant by equal growth of the two extremes?
Solution- The equal growth is the name given to the place where all four grow simultaneously. The growth below the extreme equal growth, excluding the extreme equal growth, is the equal growth of the two extremes.
Going that far, whatever difference there is, it is said- How many time alternatives are there above the equal growth of the two extremes? One time form is one alternative. But the field alternatives are only an infinite series, or only a finite series, or only a jag-series, or only the first square root of a ghana, or only the second square root of a ghana, or only a ghana-angula, or only an infinitesimal fraction of a ghana-angula, or only an infinitesimal fraction of a ghana-angula. When asked whether these are or are not, the answer is that they are only an infinitesimal fraction of an angula. Because this is the traditional teaching of the teachers. Or, there is no knowledge about the said dhotra alternatives, because the effect of the sutra related to that is the reason. The alternatives of dravya and bhava are infinite in number due to the field alternatives. The multiplier is an infinitesimal fraction of an angula, because when an infinitesimal fraction of an angula passes, the mind perceives a space in the field. In this way, the equal growth of the two extremes has been explained.
Again, when the audaric dravya of the equal growth of the two extremes is divided into equal parts by the existent biranna, then there is a dravya alternative beyond that. When the bhava of the equal growth of the two extremes is multiplied by its corresponding infinite forms, then there is a bhava alternative after that. In this way, when an infinitesimal fraction of an angula passes, a space increases in the field. In this way, the dravya and