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developed human being born out of womb) is innumerable fraction of an angul and the maximum is three gavyut (six miles).
Elaboration-In these aphorisms five Avagahana sthans (types of space-occupation) have been described (1) Normal human beings, (2) Sammurchhim Manushyas (human beings of asexual origin), (3) Garbhavyutkrant Manushyas (human beings born out of womb), (4) Aparyapt Garbhavyutkrant Manushyas (underdeveloped human beings born out of womb), and (5) Paryapt Garbhavyutkrant Manushyas (fully developed human beings born out of womb) Unlike the animals of asexual origin the human beings of asexual origin do not have the categories of fully developed and underdeveloped. The human beings of asexual origin are born in the semen, blood etc of the humans and die in their underdeveloped state. Thus these two alternatives are nonexistent.
The maximum avagahana (space occupied) by the body of a normal human being stated as three gavyuts (six miles) is in context of the human beings of Devakuru (according to Jain Mythology) and other such specific areas.
The dimension of the human body is influenced by factors like place (land), available food and time Students of anthropology and paleontology know that though the huge proportions of the bodies of the beings, including aquatic and terrestrial animals, of the remote past appear to be incredible but this is a paleontological reality that the bodies of the beings of the remote past were, indeed, gigantic
Hindi Tika of Anuyogadvar Sutra, Part 2, by Shri Jnana Muni, p 613 mentions some examples of such unusually large dimensions from the modern era
"A nine feet tall man worked in the Deval Circus Company of Bombay. In the 30th number of a newspaper, Gujarat Mitra, dated 18th December, 1892, describing the fossil remains, it is mentioned that Conotolocus (a giant demon) measured fifteen and a half feet in height A man named Furtigs was 28 ft tall In the city of Multan inside the Vir Gate there is a grave measuring more than nine yards, clearly indicating that the individual buried there must have been 27 ft tall In a foreign museum one of the exhibits is a tooth measuring one and a half feet. The size of the human being that could have such huge tooth can well be imagined
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