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GOMMATASARA.
Commentary.
The antar-muhúrta for the life of an absolutely non-developable soul is always equal to one-eighteen of a pulsation. It should be noted that there are 3773 pulsations in one muhūrtai. e., 48 minutes in the case of a healthy man.
तिरिणसया छत्तीसा छावद्विसहस्गाणि मरणाणि । अन्तोमुहूत्तकाले तावदिया चेव खुदभवा ॥ १२३ ॥ त्रिशतान्हि पत्रिशत् षट्षष्टिसहस्राणि मरणानि । अन्तर्मुहूर्त्तकाले तावन्तश्चैव क्षुद्रभवाः ॥ १२३ ।।
123. There are sixty-six thousand three hundred and thirty-six absolutely non-developable deaths (of Labdhyaparyáptaka souls) in one antar-muhúrta and (such) ephemeral births (kshudra bháva) also (are) as many.
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Commentary.
Here the antar-muhūrta is equal to 3685 3 pulsations. Now there being eighteen births and deaths within one pulsation, there will be 66336 births and deaths in one antar-muhūrta.
सीदी सही तालं वियले चउवीस होंति पंचक्खे |
छावहिं च सहस्सा सयं च बत्तीसमेयक्वे ॥ १२४ ॥ अशीतिः षष्टिः चत्वारिंशद्विकले चतुर्विंशतिर्भवन्ति पञ्चाक्षे । षट्षष्टिश्च सहस्राणि शतं च द्वात्रिंशमेकाक्षे ॥ १२४ ॥
124. There are eighty, sixty, forty, twenty-four, and sixty-six thousand one hundred and thirty-two (continuous emphemeral births) ( respectively) in the (two-sensed, three. sensed and four-sensed) incomplete (souls ), five-sensed and one-sensed (souls).
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Commentary.
This gatha gives us the maximum number of births and deaths which a soul possessed of different senses can consecutively undergo within one antar-muhúrta. It means that the same soul cannot be born more than the prescribed number of times in the same class continuously in one antar-muhúrta, although the duration of each life will not be more than one eighteenth of pulsation.
Of the twenty-four births of a five-sensed being, there can be eighty human births, eight irrational five-sensed sub-human, and eight rational five-sensed sub-human births.
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