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2 (535a) For the quantity of life of H (etc.) ref. to Pannav. 4:168b-178b.
3 (535b) a. Even the longest periods (paliovama and sāgarovama) come to an end. b. To prove this Mv. tells a story (with occasional references to Uvav.—vedhas—, Rāyap. and other places in the Viy., viz IX 332 and XI 91): In Hatthiņāpura Pabhāvai, king Bala's wife, gave birth to a son, the birth having been predicted by a great dream (mahā-suvina). (543b) The boy was called Mahabbala. (546a) His riches. (548a) In the day of the Arhat Vimala Mahabbala was taught by the monk Dhammaghosa. To his parents' regret he became a monk. After his death he gained a divine existence of ten sāgarovamas in Bambhaloga. Now this Mahabbala has become Sudamsaņa.
In the text the theory of dreams (see Lehre par. 15) is expounded by dream-readers (suvina-lakkhana-pādhaga); the fourteen great dreams (mahasuviņa) are enumerated in a gāhā.
4 (549a) End of the episode: Sudamsaņa's profession etc., ref. to Usabhadatta in IX 33** At the end: Mahabbalo samatto.
12. ALAMBHIYĀ. la (5500) In the sanctuary Sankhavaņa near A 1 a [m] b hiyā (with m only in the usg. and 55ıb) several laymen (samanôvāsaya) question their fellow-layman Isibhaddaputta on the duration of divine rebirths. He answers them that the minimum duration is a thousand years and the maximum duration thirty-three sägaróvamas. The laymen do not believe him.
1b (550a) They question Mv. on the same subject. Mv. confirms Isibhaddaputta's answer, ref. to the so-called Tungiy'uddesa: II 5.
10 (5512) Mv. informs Goy. that Isibhaddaputta, after his death, will enter a divine existence of four paliovamas in the Aruņābha vimāņa of Sohamma kappa, after which he will become a monk and attain liberation.
2 (551a) The brahmanical monk (parivvāyaga) Poggala, who knows the Vedas and lives near Sankhavaņa, acquires the
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