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पुढविदगागणिमारुदसाहारणथूलसुहमपत्तेया। एदेसु अपुरणेसु य एकेके बार खं छकं ॥ १२५ ॥ पृथ्वीदकाग्निमारुतसाधारणस्थूल सूक्ष्मप्रत्येकाः । एतषु अपूर्णेषु च एकैकस्मिन् द्वादश खं षट्कम् ॥ १२५ ॥
125. (Amongst one-sensed souls) there can be six hundred and twelve continuous ephemeral births in each of the (eleven) non-developable i. e. earth, water, fire, air, and Nigoda, (each of these being) gross and fine bodied, and mono-souled vegetables.
Commentary. Of the maximum number of births and deaths amongst one. sensed beings 66132, there can not be more than 6012 continuous births and deaths in each of the above eleven classes.
पज्जत्तसरीरस्त य पज्जत्तुदयस्स कायजोगस्स । जोगिस्स अपुण्णत्तं अपुरणजोगो त्ति णिदिहं ॥ १२६ ॥ पर्याप्तशरीरस्य च पर्याप्त्युदयस्य काययोगस्य । योगिन अपूर्णत्वमपूर्ण योग इति निर्दिष्टम् ॥ १२६ ।।
126. An (omniscient) vibratory soul, with bodily vibrations, with a developable-body, and subject to the operation of developable (body making-karma) is called incomplete vibratory soul (apúrna-yoga) when where is incompleteness (of development).
Commentary. When in the case of a vibratory omniscient soul the duration of age Karma is less than that of each of the other three AghátiyaKarmas, there is an over-flow of the spatial units of the soul, in order to equalize the duration of all the four Aghatiya Karmas. This over-flow occupies eight instants. In the first instant it is elongated like a stick (danda), in the second it broadens out like a door-leaf (Kapáta), in the third it spreads out up to the 3 universe encircling (pratara) atmospheres, and in the fourth it occupies the whole universe (Loka-purna). There is an immediate withdrawal backward and the stages are retraced in the same lir instants until the spatial units resume the original physical form when the over-flow onwards and the withdrawn backwards is in the
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