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THEIR AGE. ...Among Residentials tho maximum age of:Asura-kumaras is
1 Sagara; Naga 1
3 Palya ; Suparana , } palya less i. e. Dvipaus
The maximum age of the other 6 clagses is 14 palya. In the Saudharma and Ishana i. q. 1st and 2nd heavens, the maximum age is a little over 2 Sagaras. • In the Sanatkumar and Mahendra i. e. 3rd and 4th heavens the maximum age is a little over 7 Sagaras.
And 3, 7, 9, 11, 13, and 15 added to 7 Sagarag make up the maximum age of others. • Thus. in the 5th and 6th heavens, it is a little over 10 sagaras, „ 7th, 8th ,
14 , 12 „ 9th , 10th » » » » 16 :,, .„ „ „ 11th ,, 12th » » » 18 , In the 13th and 14th heavens it is 20 Sagaras.
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Above Arana and Achyuta in the 9 Graiveyakas it is more and more by 1 Sagara, i.e. it is 23 to 31 Sagaras respectively. In the 9 Anudishas, it is 32 Sagaras and in Vijaya etc., in the 5 Anuttaras it is 33 Sagaras but in the last Anuttara, i. e. Saryartha. siddhi, it is never less than 33 Sagaras.
In the Sudharma and Ishana, the minimum age is a little over one palya.
Further and further on, the former or maximum age becomes the minimum age for the next. As for the rest, the maximum age for the immediately preceding region is the minimum for the next above it.
The same rule applies to the ages of helligh beings i, e. maximum age of the 1st is the minimum of the 2nd and so on,
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