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[ SUTTAS 382
store ? The conceptual (number indicated by standard) through the simile of time-instants required for emptying a store is (as follows):
(Suppose there is a particular (circular) store which is (by ussehamgula) one joyana in length and breadth and one joyana in depth. As regards its surrounding wall (that is, circumference) it is three times (of one joyana, that is, three joyanas) and extra-plus. That store is completely...up to...packed with many kotis of hair-tips grown in one day, two days, three days, (etc.) There each hair-tip is cut into innumerable parts. Each such (part of) hair-tip is (equal to) an innumerablth part of the visible (particle) and is (equal to) innumerable times the bodily occupation of micro-organic moss (which is finer than the part of hair-tip mentioned above). The fire cannot burn, the wind cannot blow away nor putrefy, nor damage nor can quickly make these hair-tips emit bad smell. Now the time required for taking out these hair-tips one by one in every one hundred years till that store becomes empty, free from dust, without defilement (of hair-tips) and clean (gives an idea of the conceptual number).
This, (that is, the number of time-instants required for emptying the store) is the conceptual (number indicated by standard) through the simile of time-instants required for emptying a store. (Here runs a verse):
(The number) which is (equal to) 'ten times of kodakodi of (the number indicated by) such stores is the measure of the conceptual (number indicated by standard) through the simile of time-instants required for emptying an ocean 1/110/ .
382. What is the purpose of the conceptual (number indicated by standard) through the simile of time-instants required for emptying a store and the conceptual number indicated by standard) through the simile of time-instants required for emptying an ocean? By means of the conceptual (number indicated by standard) through the simile of time-instants required for emptying a store and (the conceptual number indicated by standard) through the simile of time-instants required for emptying an ocean, the longevity of hell-beings, animal beings, human beings, and gods is measured.
383 [1]. How long, O Lord, is the duration (longevity) of the hell-beings stated to be? It is, Goyama, ten thousand years in the minimum and thirty-three sägarovamas in the maximum.
1. Vide supra, sutta No. 377.
