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Q.336. Bhante ! From being an air body, one goes to some other species, and then reverts to life as an air body. Then how long will be the gap between one bondage and another due to the formation of a fluid body?
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उत्तर ३३६ – गोयमा ! अनंतं कालं - वणस्सइकालो ।
A. 336. Gautama ! For the time gap of the bondage of the whole, the minimum is less than a muhurta and the maximum is an infinite time, vanaspati-kāla so to say, Likewise the time gap of the bondage of a part.
रणभापुढविणेरइयत्ते गोरयण
सव्वबंधंतरं जहण्णेणं अंतोमुहुत्तं उक्को सेणं एवं सबंधंतरं पि ।
प्रश्न ३३७ - जीवस्स णं भंते !
प्पभापुढवि... पुच्छा ?
Q. 337. And for a similar situation in the Ratnaprabhā hell, from this hell out and back again, pray ?
उत्तर ३३७ - गोयमा ! सव्वबंधंतरं जणेणं दसवा ससहस्साइं अंतोमुहुत्त - मब्भहियाई उक्कोसेणं वणस्सइकालो । देसबंधंतरं जहणेणं अंतीमहुतं उक्कोसेणं अनंतं कालं - वणस्सइकालो । एवं जाव असत्तमाए णवरं जा जस्स ठिई जहणिया सा सव्वबंधंतरे जहण्गेणं अंतोमुहुत्तमब्भहिया कायव्वा । सेसं तं चैव । पंचिंदियतिरिक्खजोणियम णुस्साणं य जहा वाउक्काइयाणं । असुरकुमारणागकुमार जाव सहस्सारदेवाणं एएसिं जहा रयणप्पभापुढविणेरइयाणं णवरं सव्वबंधंतरं जस्स जा ठिई जहणिया सा अंतीमहत्तमब्भहिया कायव्वा । सेसं तं चेव ।
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A. 337. Gautama ! For the time gap of the bondage of the whole, the minimum is 10,000 years minus one muhurta and the maximum is vanaspati-kāla (infinite time). For the time gap of the bordage of a part, the minimum is less than a muhurta ard the maximum is an infinite time, vanas pati-kāla. The same holds of all the hells underneath, except that in the case of the time gap of the bondage of the whole, state the minimum stay in each case minus one
