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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, muhúrtta, days, demi-lunations, months, years, ages (palyas), oceans (ságara), 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 indirectly 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, (ahárika); a luminous body (tejasvi) like those of the gods; and any body obtained as the
