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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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The Last Five Upingas [1. Lect. 1.
with an army constituted of three thousand elephants (and so forth), has become re-born as a hell-being in the hell Hemăbha, in the foruth region Pankappabhã, with ten Sagarovamast as the maximum duration of life.
19. Then Goyama asked: 5 0 Venerable Sir, on account of what acts, what deeds, what acts and deeds, what enjoyments, what enjoyments and pleasures and what heap of evil karmas did prince Killa, having met with death at the time of gurcease, became re-born as a hell-being in the fourth region of Pankappabha ? Then Mahkvira replied : “In this way, O Goyama.”
20. At that time and at that period there was a king named Seniya in the city of Riyagiha who was as powerful as the mountain Mahayă (and so forth). That king Seniya had a queen named Nandã who was
1. Săgarovama, Sk. Săgaropamit. A period, measured by the time in which a vast well, round in shape and one yojana (four milos) long, one yojana broad and one yojana deep, filled with minute bits of hair so closely packed that a river might be harried over them without penetrating the interstics, could be emptied at the rato of one hair in a century, is what is known as a paliovama (Sk, palyopama). This repeated ten kotis of kotis of times (i.e. 1,000,000,000,000,000) is a Sågaropama.
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