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-367] STANDARD OF MEASUREMENT OF TIME (KĀLAPAMĀŅA) 131
numerable number of avaliyas one usasa (expiration), numerable number of avaliyas one nisäsa (inspiration). (On this, the verses run):
One usasa and nisasa of a man who is pleased, not pained by old age and untroubled (by disease) is said to be one pāņu (breath) //104//
Seven pāņus make one thova, seven thovas make one lava, by seventy-seven lavas (is made what) is called one muhutta //105//
Three thousand seven hundred and seventy-three (3773) ūsāsas (meaning sasa and nisāsa) are called one muhutta by all omniscients //106//
By this standard of muhutta,
30 muhuttas make one ahoratta (one day and night),
15 ahurattas make one pakkha (half of a month),
2 pakkhas make one masa (one month),
2
māsas make one uu (one season),
3
uus make one ayana (half of a year, the period of duration of the sun's passage, north and south of the equator),
2
ayanas make one samvacchara (one year),
5 samvaccharas make one juga,
20 jugas make one vasasaya (one hundred years),
10
vasasatas (sic) make one vasasahassa (one thousand years),
100
vasasahassas make one vasasayasahassa (one hundred thousand years),
84,00,000 vasas make one puvvamga, 84,00,000 puvvamgas make one puvva, 84,00,000 puvvas make one tudiyamga, 84,00,000 tuḍiyamgas make one tudiya.
'Similarly, adadamga, adada, apapamga, apapa, huhuyamga, huhuya, uppalamga, uppala, paumamga, pauma, nalinamga, nalina, atthanipuramga, atthaniura (sic), auyamga, auya, nauyamga, nauya, pautamga, pauta, culiyamga, 84,00,000 sisapaheliyamga make culiya, sisapaheliyamga, and sisapaheliya (=84,00,00028 years).
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Thus far indeed is counting. This much indeed is subject to counting. From this onward (another standard through) similes (ovamia) prevails.
1. Vide footnote 4 on p. 149 of the MJV edition. 2. Vide footnote 9 on p. 149 of the MJV edition.
