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Biology in Jaina Treatise on Reals
Acyuta) upwards due to self or alien causes. In addition, they have also a contact area of 8 Rajjus out of the 14 Rajjus' area of the universe. The ejectable body has a contact area of innumerableth part of the universe. The luminous and karman bodies have the contact area of the whole universe. (ix) Time : These bodies are also distinctive with respect to their time or duration. This has been described with respect to a single living being. The minimum duration of the gross body of the human and subhuman beings is an under-Muhurta (<48 minutes). This excludes the mixed gross body duration. The maximum duration is three palyopamas less by an under-Muhurta. This under-Muhuta indicates the period of non-completion.
The minimum duration of primary transfomable body with respect to the celestials is 10,000 years less by an under-Muhurta of non-completion. The maximum duration is 33 Sagaropamas less by an under-Muhurta of noncompletion. The minimum and maximum duration of secondary transformable body is an under-Muhurta. Q. How this small duration could serve the purpose of transformable body
longer processes of celebration the birth ceremony of the fordbuilders and worshiping of the Enlightened Jinas in Nandīšvara islands. A. The celestials have repeated transformation capacity every underMuhurta and, thus, the successions remain continuous.
The duration of the ejectable body is an under-Muhurata in both the respects of its minimum and maximum durations. The duration of the luminous and karman bodies is beginningless and endless for those who are nonliberatables and for those also who are liberatables but will not be liberated even by the infinite time. However, for the liberatables who will be liberated in due course, the duration of these bodies is beginningless but with end. With respect to the karmic drippings (nişeka), the bodies have a duration of one Samaya of time unit. The maximum duration of karmic drippings of the luminous body is 66 Sagaropamas (1 Sagaropama = 10 x 10years). The maximum duration of the karman body is seventy crore x crore (koti-koti, 10') Sagarcpamas. (x) Interval : This will be described with respect to a single living being. The minimum interval of gross body excluding mixed gross body is an underMuhurta. It means that the minimum time for acquiring the next gross body in lieu of the current body after death is an under-Muhurta.
The four-fold destinated living being is born among humans and subhumans. He remains non-completioned for an under-Muhurta and gets completioned. He lives for an under-Muhurta and dies to be born in either human or subhuman destinity where he spends an under-Muhurta as noncompletioned and gets completioned to acquire another gross body. This gives a minimum interval of an under-Muhurta between two successive gross bodies acquired by the same living being.
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