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Bhagavati Sūtra Bk. 6 Ch. 7
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crores of such hair-tips are pressed into it in such a that neither fire can burn them, nor wind can remove them, and the said hair-tips neither stink, nor are destroyed nor get rotten. If, after this, from that palya, filled to capacity with such hair-tips, one hair is taken out in a hundred years, and if this process is repeated, then a time comes when the palya becomes empty, without dust, without content, pure, vacant, without a smear, deprived (of hair-tips), and remains only itself. Such a time is called a palyopama.
गाहा :
एरसिं पल्लाणं कोडाकोडीणं हवेज्ज दसगुणिया । तं सागरोवमस्स उ एक्कस्स भवे परिमाणं ||
Couplet :
When it is ten kotākoți times of a palyopama It becomes the measure of a sāga pama 13.
[ on time-cycle ]
एएणं सागरोवमपमाणेणं चत्तारि सागरोवमकोडाकोडिओ कालो सुसम सुसमा तिणि सागरोवमकोडाकोडीओ कालो सुसमा दो सागरोवमकोडाकोडीओ कालो सुसमदुसमा एगसागरोवमकोडाकोडी बायालीसाए वाससहस्सेहिं ऊणिया कालो दुसमनमा । एक्कवीस वाससहस्साई कालो दुसमा एक्कवीसं वाससहस्साई कालो दुसमदुसमा पुणरवि उस्सप्पिणीए एक्कवीसं वाससहस्साई कालो दुसमदुसमा एक्कवीसं वाससहस्साइं जाव... ... चत्तारि सागरोपमकोडाकोडी कालो सुसम सुसमा । दस सागरोवमकोडाकोडीओ कालो ओसप्पिणी दस arrantsोडीओ कालो उस्सप्पिणी । वीसं सागरोवमकोडाकोडिओ अवसप्पिणी उस्सप्पिणी य ।
Four kotākoți sāgaropamas make one susama-suşamā ārā (bracing-bracing era). Three kotakoți sāgaropamas make one suşamā ārā (bracing era). Two kotākoți sāgaropamas make one susama duhsamā ārā ( bracing-non-bracing era ). One kotakoti sāgaropamas minus 42,000 years make one
