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षट्वाराऽऽत्मकयोः क्रमेण चलतोः कालस्य वा चक्रयोः। क्षेत्रे श्रीभरते * भवन्ति विभवोऽहन्तश्चतुर्विंशति
लभ्यन्ते तु विदेहभूमिषु सदा तीर्थङ्कराः शङ्कराः ॥ ३४॥
In Bharata-kshetra ( and Airavata-kshetra) there flourish twenty-four divine beings called Arhats during the two cycles, the Utsarpini and the Avasarpini which are as it were the revolving wheels of time consisting of six Aras (spokes ) and during the former cycle prosperity goes on increasing whereas during the latter it goes on decreasing; while, in Videha-kshetra the Tirthankaras who give happiness are always to be had. (34)
Notes:-Jainism divides the ages of the world into two cycles, the Utsarpini and the Avasarpini. These two cycles make up a Kala-chakra the number of years of which is twenty crores of crores of Sagaropamas. Each of these is again subdivided into six parts called Aras. The six Aras of the Utsarpini period are ( i ) Duhshama-duhshama ( the age of great misery ), ( ii ) Duhshama ( the age of misery ), (iii) Duhshama-sushama ( the age of misery and very little happiness; the period wherein pain preponderates over felicity ), (iv) Sushamaduhshama ( the age of mixed pleasure and pain, the former being in excess; the age of happiness and * 597739iai orasia
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