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The **Chakkhandagam** describes the inferior and superior time periods of the fourteen **Gunasthanas** and fourteen **Marganas**, as well as the nature of various beings, in a different way. By studying this time period description, readers will be able to learn many new things.
[6] **Antara Prarupana** - **Antara** means separation, disconnection, or absence. When a being in a particular **Gunastana** leaves that **Gunastana** and goes to another **Gunastana**, the time period before it returns to the same **Gunastana** is called **Antara Kala** or **Virah Kala**. The shortest **Virah Kala** is called **Jghanya Antara** and the longest **Virah Kala** is called **Utkrisht Antara**. This **Antara Prarupana** describes the time period for which a being remains in **Antara** from a particular **Gunastana** and **Margana** - the minimum and maximum time periods.
For example, someone asked about the **Antara Kala** of **Mithyadristi** beings in relation to **Ogh**. The answer is that there is no **Antara** in relation to various beings, they are continuous. This means that **Mithyadristi** beings are always found in the world, so their **Antara Kala** is not possible. However, the **Jghanya Antara Kala** of **Mithyatva** in relation to one being is **Antarmuhurt** long. This **Jghanya Antara Kala** occurs when a **Mithyadristi** being attains **Samyaktva** due to the purification of **Parinamas** and becomes **Asanyata Samyagdristi**. This being remains in the fourth **Gunastana** for the shortest time period of **Antarmuhurt** with **Samyaktva**, and then falls due to **Sanklesh** etc. and becomes **Mithyadristi**. The **Antarmuhurt** time period that is free from **Mithyatva Paryaya** before leaving the **Mithyatva Gunastana** and attaining another **Gunastana** and then returning to the same **Gunastana** is the **Jghanya Antara Kala** of the **Mithyadristi Gunastana** in relation to that one being.
The **Utkrisht Antara Kala** of **Mithyatva** in relation to one being is slightly less than two **Chyasat Sagar**, or one hundred and thirty-two (132) **Sagaropam**. This **Utkrisht Antara Kala** occurs when a being is born in the **Lantav-Kapishta** heaven of the fourteenth **Sagar** lifespan. After one **Sagar**, it attains **Samyaktva**. It remains there for thirteen **Sagars** with **Samyaktva** and then falls and becomes a human. Here, it dies while practicing or not practicing **Samyama**, and is born as a god in the sixteenth heaven with a lifespan of twenty-two **Sagars**. It remains there with **Samyaktva** for its entire lifespan and then falls and becomes a human again. In this **Bhava**, it dies while practicing **Samyama** and is born in the ninth **Graiveyak** with a lifespan of thirty-one **Sagars**. It remains **Samyagdristi** for its entire life, but at the end of its life, after sixty-six **Sagars** are completed, the emergence of **Mishra Prakriti** causes it to attain the third **Gunastana**.