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Nyāya-Kusumānjali very little misery ), ( v ) Sushama ( the age of felicity ) and ( vi ) Sushama-sushama ( the age of great felicity ). The names of the six Aras of the Avasarpini are the same but they occur in the reverso order, Sushama-sushama being the first. The Avasarpini is the period of descent which opens in great prosperity but ends in extreme pain for the living beings. During this period, the climatic conditions, the productive powers of the earth, morality, religion, longevity of people, their stature, go on deteriorating. In short, the process of decline continues in every department of life. The Ctsarpini begins from the worst conditions of life which gradually improve. This (tsarpini is in its turn followed by Avasarpini and Avasarpini by Ctsar. pini and so forth. The first three Aras of the Avasarpini and the last three of the Ltsarpini are periods for enjoyment. At present we are in the fifth Ara of the Avasarpini period ( we have passed through about 2443 years of it ). The numbers of years allotted to the Aras of the Avasarpini are four crores of crores of Sagaropamas, three crores of crores of Sagaropamas, two crores of crores of Sagaropamas, one crore of crores of Sayaropamas minus 42000 years, 21000 years and 21000 years respectively.
It is only in Bharata and Airavata Kshetras that the twenty-four Tirthankarus arise only during the third and the fourth Aras of either cycle. Such is not the case in Videha-kishetra. There Tërthankaras are always to be found. The period too, is
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