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APPENDIX - 3
A Resume on Pudgala Parāvarta Kāla (The incomprehensible, most extensive time-calculation) Kāla - Time : The sixth basic substance. 1 Samaya = Indivisible unit of time. 1 Avalikā = Countless samaya-exact figure as per 4th
Countless i.e. Yukta. 1 Second = 5,825 Āvalikā. 1 Palyõpama = countless number of years. 1 Sāgaropama = 10 Kõțākoti Sagaropama. (1,000,000,000,000,000)
por lyopama.
1 Kāla Cakra' (Time-Cycle) = 20 Kõțākāļi Sāgarōpama. (1/2 Cycle = 1 Avasarpini divided into Six periods) (1/2 Cycle = 1 Utsarpini divided into Six periods.) 1. Pudgala Parāvarta Kāla =
a. Bādara = . Gross-Infinite time-cycles.
b. Sūkşma = Finesse-infinite power to infinite time-cycles.
The Jiva-Sentient Soul is beginningless (i.e. Nigod-Sub-micro organism). When Jiva enters Vyavahāra Rāśi - Active Division in the Cosmos, it goes through infinite Pudgala Parāvarta Kāla in endless deaths and rebirths in different existences and forms until the final liberation.
Pudgala . = Matter. Parāvarta = To complete the Circuit. Kāla
= . Time Pudgala Parāvarta Kāla = The time consumed to complete the circuit of matter. There are four types of calculations pertaining to :
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