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niruvacaya-niravacayā). With one-sensed beings, though, only the third case (sôv.-sav.) is possible and with Siddhas only the first case and the fourth case (sốv., niruv.) are possible. The minimum and maximum spaces of time in question are specified for HAMG and Siddhas. * *
9. RAYAGIHA.
1 (246) The name Rāy a gih a applies to that town in respect of all its constituent parts, ref. to 7% above.
2 (246b) The radiance of the day is due to bright (subha) particles (poggala) and their accidentals (poggala-pariņāma); the darkness of the night is due to asubha poggalas and p-pariņāmas. For the same reason H and A1-3 are dark, G are radiant and in A4-5 and M radiance and darkness are mixed (subhâsubha poggala and p.-pariņāma).
For the origin of darkness see also VI 51 below. 3 (246b) The divisions of time (samaya up to ussappiņi) only count for mankind.
4 (247b) Pāsávaccijjā therā bhagavanto question Mv.: On the authority of Pārsva himself My. declares that in the world the measures of which cannot be expressed in numbers' (asamkhejje loe) there were, are and will be (generally speaking] an infinite number (añanta) of days, but at the same time (viz in each of the three cases ?] a limited number (paritta) of days. According to Pārsva (epithet: puris'ādānīya) the world (loya) is eternal (sāsaya), has neither a beginning nor an end, is limited (paritta) and surrounded (parivuda) [by the non-world, Abhay.]. Below it is expanded (vitthinna = vistīrna) and like a bedstead (paliyanka), in the middle it is narrow (samkhitta) and like [the flat discus of] Indra's thunderbolt (vara-vaira), above it is broad (visāla) and like a drum standing upright (uddha-muinga).
Conclusion of the episode: the Pāsávaccijja Elders, being very much impressed, are converted. (The jāvas refer to Kālāsa's conversion in I 95.) Later on they will attain salvation, some of them after having been reborn in the heavens.
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