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180. Question: How many types of *paly* are there? What is measured by them? Answer: There are three types of *paly*: *vyavahar paly*, *uddhar paly*, and *addha paly*. *Vyavahar paly* measures the number, *uddhar paly* measures the islands and oceans, and *addha paly* measures the state of karma. 181. Question: What is *paly*? Answer: In the best *bhogabhumi*, take the hair of a sheep born within seven days of its birth, cut it into pieces equal to its front part, and fill a huge pond with a diameter of one *yojana* and a depth of one *yojana* with billions of such accumulated hairs. The amount of hair filled in such a huge pond is called *paly*. 182. Question: What is *vyavahar paly*? Answer: The number of times that one hair is removed from the pond filled with hair every hundred years, until all the hair is exhausted, is the number of times of *vyavahar paly*.
(100)