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form a medium in which motion can be performed, solids are stable, air forms the atmosphere, and body is matter formed for the habitation of a living principle, and has the four divisions named above
The divisions of time are, samaya, avali, muhurtta, days, demi-lunations, montlıs, years, ages (palyas), oceans (sígara), utsarpini, and avasarpani. The first is an infinitesimal part of time), and there are sixteen millions, seven hundred and seventy-seven thousand, two hundred and sixteen (16,777,216) avali in a muhúrtta (forty-eight minutes). The two last are the Jain eras, measuring the time between the creation and destruction of the world, as elsewhere explained).
III. The rewards of merit, and themselves productive of merit, are, birth in a good family, in one of the two conditions of manhood, (manhood directly, or in lirectly by being removed to a human womb in the embryo state, as narrated of Mahávíra), the two conditions of godhead (as before), the possession of the five senses, and of one of the five bodies. These are, a natural body, (udárika); a supernatural assumed temporarily, (vaikriya); one a cubit long, to go to Mahavidehi, a particular terrestrial continent, to obtain of the Tirthankaras there a solution of doubts, (alárika); a luminous body (tejasvi) like those of the gods; and any body obtained as the
