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exists for a time-unit (samaya), then, relatively to time, it becomes aprade śa. Cf.
jo jassa paḍhama-samae baṭṭai bhāvassa so u apaeso aṇṇammi vaṭṭamāņo kālāeseņa sapaeso
[The phenomenon in which the soul exists in the first time-unit is apradeśa; otherwise, i.e., if it exists in second, third or more time-units, it is sapradeśa.]
11. The life-span of living beings is determined by all the three. So also the life-span of the Vaimanikas. Not SO of infernal beings whose life-span is not determined by renunciation. Only unrenounced beings are born in the hells.
12. The expression egapaesiyae sedhie does not mean an array of one-prade sa beings; it means a similarily from the base till the summit. For, tamaskaya consists of dark waterbodies who need innumerable cells or space-points for their stay. An array of beings with one prade sa is not big enough to hold all the water-bodies constituting tamaskāya.
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13. Further divisions of palyopama are as follows:
uddhāra
Palyopama
addhä
kşetra
vyavahāra sukṣma vyavahāra sukṣma vyavahāra sukṣma uddhāra uddhära addhā addhā kştra kşetra
Sāgaropama has similar divisions, but krores of time more in each case.
14. These 12 forms are as follows :
(1) Jāti-nāma nidhatta; (2) jāti-nāma nidhaṭṭāyu; (3) jāṭi-nāma niyukta ; (4) jāti-nāma niyuktāyu; (5) jāti
