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( 13 ) The minimum age of beings in the 1st hell is 10,000 years. The minimum age of Residentials is also the same i, e. 10,000
years. For Peripatetics the minimum is the same i. e., 10,000 years. The maximum age for Peripatetics is a little over one palya. The Stellars also have a maximum of a little over one palya. The minimum for the Stellars is * of a palya.
The age of the Laukantikas is 8 Sagaras. It is the same for all. They live in the end of the 5th heaven. The maximum for the 4th and therefore the minimum for the 5th heaven is 7 sagaras ; the maximum for the 5th heaven is 10 Sagaras for the other gods in the 5th heaven, but for Laukantikas it is uniformly 8 Sagaras only.
THEIR STATURE. Their size like their moving from place to place, their worldly possession and pride, goes on decreasing as we go up to the higher heaven..
Thus their sizes are as follows:-- In the 1st and 2nd heavens, it is about 7 hands (cubite.) In the 3rd and 4th „ „ i 6 » .. 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th
5 » » 9th, 11th, 11th, and 12th , „ 4 , , 13th and 14th 10 i » 34 „ 15th and 16th. , , In the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Graiveyaka it is 24 hands. In the 4th, 5th, and 6th ... i 2 In the 7th, 8th, and 9th In the 9 Anudishas In the 5 Anuttaras
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