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Pāpata
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448
Same as Pāņaya.1
Pāṇata (Prāṇata)
1. Sam. 19, 20.
1. Pāņaya (Pranata) Tenth Kappa(1) (celestial region). It consists of four hundred abodes (including those of Anaya region) of the height of nine hundred yojanas3 The maximum and the minimum span of life of the gods residing in this region are twenty and nineteen sägaropama years respectively. Mahāvira's soul descended from this region and entered the womb of Devānamdā(2)5 1. Praj. 53.
4. Sam. 20, 19. 2. Jam. 118, Sam. 106, Bha. 404,520. 5. Kalpv. p. 44.
3. Sam. 112. 2. Pānaya A celestial abode in Anaya Kappa where gods have maximum span of life of nineteen sägaropama years. They breathe once in nineteen fortnights and have desire for food once in nineteen thousand years.1
1. Sam. 19. Pāņayaha (Prānavadha) Third chapter of the twentieth section of Viyāhapampatti.1
1. Bha. 662.
Fourth charter
of the eighteenth
section of
Pāņāivāya (Prārātifāta) Viyāhapannatti.1
1. Bha. 516.
Pānāu (Prānāyus) Twelfth Puvva text. It was divided into thirteen chapters.
1. Nan. 57, Sam. 13, 14, 147. Pāṇini (Pānini) A grammarian whose aphorisms are quoted in Dasaveyāliya-cupni. He is said to be the author of Prāktalaksana, a work on Prakrit grammar, which is not extant.
1. DasCu. pp. 61-4, 133-6, 192-3. I 2. PinNM. pp. 8, 13, 46, VyaM. I. p. 5. Päyāvacca (Prājāpatya) Same as Payāvai(5). 1
1. Jam. 152.
Pārasa An Anāriya (non-Aryan) country. Preceptor Kālaga(1) went there and returned with ninety six kings. Some ladies of Girişagara were abducted to this country. They lived here as prostitutes. It is identified with modern Persia. 1. Praj. 37, SutSi. p. 123, Pras. 4, Jna. 2. NisCu, III. p. 59.
18, Bha. 380, Aup. 33, NisCu. II. 3. AvaCu. II. p. 289. p. 470,- VyaM. III. p. 122, Utts. 4. LAT. p. 147.
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