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सप्तादय अष्टान्ताः षण्णवमध्याश्च संयताः सर्वे । अञ्जलिमौलिकहस्तस्त्रिकरणशुद्धया नमस्यामि ॥६:३॥
633. All (souls) with control (ive., Samyata, from the 6th to the 14th spiritual stages, are represented in number by a figure with) seven in the beginning, eight in the end, and 6 nines in the middle, (8,99,99,997); I bow (to them) with folded-hands, raised to my bowed forehead, with the three-fold purity (of mind, speech and body).
Commentary. Please note that in writing down in figures the value of a numerical expression, the rule is to write in a reverse order, beginning from the right hand. Thus 7 would be at the place of unit and the maximum number of saints, existing at any one instant is 8.99,99,997. The details are as follows:Saints in 6th stage
... 5,93,98,206 7th ,,
... 2,96,99,103 8th, 9th, 10, and 11th stages of subsidential ladder
1,196 8th, 9th, 10th, and 12th stages of destructive ladder
2,392 13th stage of vibratory omniscience
8,98,502 14th stage of non-vibratory omniscience ...
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__Total ... 8,99,99,997 ओघासंजदमिस्सयसासणसम्माण भागहारा जे। रूऊणावलियासंखेजेणिह भजिय तत्थ णिक्खित्ते ॥६३४॥ श्रोघा असंयतमिश्रकसासनसमीचां भागहारा ये । रूपोनावलिकासंख्यातेनेह भक्त्वा तत्र निक्षिप्ते ॥ ६३४॥ देवाणं अवहारा होंति असंखेण ताणि अवहरिय । तत्थेव य पक्खित्ते सोहम्मीसाणअवहारा ॥ ६३५॥ देवानामवहारा भवन्ति असंख्येन तानवहृत्य । तत्रैव च प्रक्षिप्ते सौधर्मशानावहाराः॥ ६३५॥
634-35. The divisors (of Palya) for the vowless (Asamyata), mixed (Mishra) and downfall (Sásádana) stages, (referred to in Gathas 623-24) being divided by the
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