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Commentary. For the celestial and hellish beings the extra time is equal to 2 Antar-muhúrta, because their thought-paint begins one Antarmuhúrta before they are born and continues for one Antara-muhúrta after their death. The extra time for yellow and pink is little less than half Ságara. It is thus. Saudharma and íshána heavenly beings have the maximum age of 2 Ságaras, but if a right believer with interrupted age (Ghátá-yushka) dies prematurely and is born there, he may have an age of 23 Sagaras minus one Antar-muhurta. Similarly a wrong believer dying prematurely can add an extra innumerable part of a Palya to his age. These 2 extras are possible up to the 12th heaven, because no one dying prematurely can be born beyond it. A little less than half Ságara will be added to the prescribed age of each pair of heavens till the 12th heaven.
Sub-Chapter XI V Interval (Antara). अंतरमवरकस्सं किएहतियाणं मुहत्तअंतं तु। उवहीणं तेत्तीसं अहियं होदित्ति णिदिडं ॥ ५५३ ॥ अन्तरमवरोत्कृष्टं कृष्णत्रयाणां मुहूर्तान्तस्तु । उद्धीनां त्रयस्त्रिंशदधिकं भवतीति निर्दिष्टम् ॥ ५५३ ॥ तेउतियाणं एवं णवरि य उकस्सविरहकालो दु। पोग्गलपरिवठ्ठा हु असंखेज्जा होति णियमेण ॥ ५५४ ॥ तेजस्त्रयाणामेवं नवरि च उत्कृष्टविरहकालस्तु । पुद्गलपरिवर्ता हि असंख्येया भवन्ति नियमेन ॥ ५५४ ॥
553-54. The minimum and maximum interval of the three (black, blue and grey thought-paints) is one Antarmuhúrta and a little more than 33 Ságaras. This has been said. It is the same for the three yellow (pink and white), but the maximum intervals are necessarily the innumerable matter cycles of existences (Pudgala Parivartana),
Commentary, Interval means time spent in other thought-paints before regaining the one which was left. A soul born in Videha with one crore of Púrya age, acquires black thought-paint at the age of 8 vears minus 6 Antar-muhúrtas, then he changes into blue, grey, pale, pink and white gradually, each in one Antar-muhúrta. Then
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