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A being with a lifespan of a *purvakoti* (previous aeon) binds its lifespan in the hells of the seventh earth through a short *ayubandhak* (lifespan-binding) period. [112]
A being with a lifespan of a *purvakoti* binds its lifespan in the seventh earth, and through *avalambanakaran* (dependence-making), it destroys many substances of the *ayukarma* (lifespan karma). Therefore, a being with a lifespan of a *purvakoti* is taken here. *Avalambanakaran* is the name for falling down due to the destruction of the upper substances of the *ayukarma* related to the future life.
It binds through the *jghannyayoga* (inferior yoga) of *tappāoggajhaṇṇaeṇa* (being in the state of being burnt). [113]
It has remained for an *antarmuhurt* (inner moment) in the middle of the *yogayava* (yoga-limb). [114]
It has remained for an innumerable part of an *avali* (a period of time) in the first *jivagunahanisthānantar* (after the state of the loss of the qualities of the soul). [115]
Then, gradually, it has been born in the hells of the seventh earth, having obtained death. [116]
One who has bound the lifespan related to the future life does not perform *kadali ghat* (destruction of the lifespan), this is the rule. Therefore, one should understand the meaning of the sutra as follows: one who has been born in the hells without destroying the lifespan of the future life by performing *avalambanakaran* for less than three parts of a *purvakoti* and by performing *apavartana ghat* (destruction of the lifespan).
It has taken food through the *jghanny upapad yoga* (inferior birth yoga) of the *padamasamayahar* (first-time food) and the *padamasamayatabbhavattha* (first-time being). [117]
It has grown through *jghannyavaddhi* (inferior growth). [118]
It has become sufficient through *paryattis* (sufficient) for an *antarmuhurt* (inner moment) and for a very long time. [119]
In the time of sufficiency, the destruction of the lifespan is much less than in the time of insufficiency through the inferior yoga. Therefore, the length of the time of insufficiency is indicated in the present sutra.