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SAMVARA OR STOPPAGE,
just like a man standing erect with arms resting against his waist. Being composed of the six substantive categories of the Jain philosophy from time without begining, it is the permanent theatre of perpetual changes. All the jivas and the pudgal particles which fill up all the three regions known as urdha, adha, tiryak are not outside this Person but they are all contained in it: for outside this Universe-man is the vacuous space only going by the name of alokakåsh or hyperphysical regions which is infinite in extensiveness. In the infernal regions (adholoka) there are seven worlds one upon the other wherein are imprisoned the jivas of the hell. Somewhere there also dwells the Bhavanapati. In the third world from downwards dwell the human beings and other animal lower to them. In the celestial regions live the gods. Such,
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