Book Title: Divisions Of Empirical Time In Jainism
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DIVISIONS OF EMPIRICAL TIME IN JAINISM
Numerable Time The smallest and indivisible period of empirical time is called samaya. Further divisions are represented as:
Innumerable samaya = 1āvali Numerable āvali = 1 ucсhvāsa 7 ucсhvāsa = 1 stoka 7 stoka = 1 lava 381/2 lava = 1 nāli 2 nālī = 1 muhūrta (= 48 minutes) 30 muhurta = 1 dina-rāta ( = 24 hours) 15 dina-rāta = 1 paksa 2 paksa = 1 māsa (month) 2 māsa = 1 rtu 3 rtu = 1 ayana 2 ayana = 1 varsa (year) 5 varşa = 1 yuga 2 yuga = 10 varsa 10,000 x 10 varsa = 1 lakṣa (lakh) varsa 84x 1 lakṣa (lakh) varsa (years) = 1 pūrvānga
1 pūrva
= 84 lakh x 1 pūrvanga = 84 lakh x 84 lakh years = 70560000000000 years (also, 1 pūrvakoti = 1 crore x 1 pūrva; 1 crore = 100 x 1 lakh = 100,00,000)
1 parvānga 1 parva
= 84x1 pūrva = 84 lakh x1 parvānga
1 nayutānga = 84x1 parva 1 nayuta = 84 lakh x 1 nayutānga
Excerpted from the forthcoming book "Acarya Samantbhadra's Svaymbhūstotra - Adoration of The Twenty-four Tīrthankara" by Vijay K. Jain, (2015), Vikalp Printers, Dehradun, India
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