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485-36. (The duration of time of the visual knowledge) of the heavenly beings in Saudharma and íshána is innumerable crore years, in the upper four heavens (Sanat-kumára, Máhendra, Brahma and Brahmottara), an innumerable part of a Palya Then from the heaven (Lántava) up to Sarvártha-siddhi, the measure of time is little less than one Palya with proper variations.
जोइसियंताणोहीखेत्ता उत्ता ण हों ते घणपदरा । कप्पसुराणं च पुणो विसरित्थं प्रायदं हो दे ॥ ४३७॥ ज्योतिष्कान्तानामवधिक्षेत्राणि उक्तानिन भवन्ति घनप्रतराणि। कल्पसुराणां च पुनः विसदृशमायतं भवति ॥ ४३७ ॥
437. The said spatial extent of the visual (knowledge) of (residential, peripatetics) up to the stellars is not regular cube; and of the heavenly beings (it is) of unequal length, (i.e., oblong). And (in men, subhuman and hellish beings the spatial extent is cubic.
Commentary. The heavenly beings can never see by means of visual know.. ledge in the upper direction beyond the highest point of their own particular mansion in heavens. चिंतियमचिंतियं का अद्धं चिंतियमणेयभेयगयं । मणपज्जवंति उच्चइ जं जाणइ तं खु णरलोए ॥ ४३८॥ चिन्तितमचिन्तितं वा अर्द्ध चिन्तितमनेक भेदगतम् । मनःपर्यय इत्युच्यते यजानाति तत्खलु नरलोके ॥ ४३८॥
438. That is called the mental (knowledge, Manah Paryáya), which knows whatever has, about various (matters), been thought (in the past), or has not been thought (i. e., will be thought in the future), or is half thought (by other rational souls) within the human region, (2} continents up to the mountain Mánushottara).
मणपज्जवं च दुविहं उजुविउलमदित्तिउजुमदीतिविहा । उजुमणवयणे काए गदत्थविसयात्ति णियमेण ॥ ४३६ ॥
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