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Seven prans make one stoka, seven stokas make one lava and seventy seven lavas make one muhurt (a unit of time equal to 48 minutes). (2)
As said by the omniscients three thousand seven hundred seventy three uchhavas-nishvas (inhalation-exhalations) make one muhurt. (3)
By the standard of this muhurt, thirty muhurts make one ahoratra (day and night), fifteen ahoratras (day and night) make one paksha (fortnight), two pakshas make one maas (month), two maas make one ritu (season), three ritus make one ayan (the time from one solstice to another; six months), two ayans make one samvatsar (year), five samvatsars make one yug and twenty yugs make one varshashat (century). Ten varshashat make one varshasahasra (millennium) and one hundred varshasahasra make one varshashatsahasra, 8.4 million varsh make one purvanga, 8.4 million purvangas make one purva, 8.4 million purvas make one trutitanga, 8.4 million trutitanga make one trutit, 8.4 million trutit make one adadanga, 8.4 million adadanga make one adada, 8.4 million adada make one avavanga, 8.4 million avavanga make one avava, 8.4 million avava make one huhukanga, 8.4 million huhukanga make one huhuka, the same process continues to include utpalanga, utpala, padmanga, padma, nalinanga, nalina, achhanikuranga, achhanikura, ayutanga, ayut, nayutanga, nayuta, prayutanga, prayuta, chulikanga, chulika and still further 8.4 million chulika make one sheershaprahelikanga and 8.4 million sheershaprahelikanga make one sheershaprahelika. (for more details see Illustrated Anuyogdvar, Part I, p. 289)
Thus far goes arithmetic or numerical counting. Only this much is the scope of mathematics and beyond this metaphoric time scale comes into play. In other words, beyond this metaphors are used to express the measure of time. औपमिक कालप्रमाणनिरूपण
३६८. से किं तं ओवमिए ? Bitafig sa Youth H-9. AT 2, . Fridal
सचित्र अनुयोगद्वार सूत्र-२
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Illustrated Anuyogadvar Sutra-2
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