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segaropa mas; of a gotra karma the same; of an antaraya karma 3,000,000,000,000,000 'Sagaropamas.
This subject is being considered with a view to showing how the sanıyaktvå can be reached; and so far as the samyaktva is conceaned the ayub karma is necessary and is not taken into account.
A sagaropama is one thousand billion (that is to say in figures 1,000,000,000,000,000,) palyopamas.
A palyopama is an innumerable (not infinite, but having « limit) quantity of years, so great that it cannot be numbered. An innumerable quantity is a limited quantity and will in time be exhausted. An infinite quantity will never be exhausted.
Although the above numbers are immense, stili, in view of the theory that so far as the past is concerned, we have not been without karma, the duration of our various karmas has already been considerably more than the above mentioned numbers of years.
In the Jain idea of time the smallest division is called a 'samaya'. In a wink of the eye, for instance, and such similar durations, there are innu. merable Samayas.
Innumerable samayas would make one avali.
16,777, 216 avalis make one muhurta (equal to 48 minutes, English time.)
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