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LIFETIME OF SUBHUMAN BEINGS
uddharapalyas make up one uddhāra sāgaropama. The continents and oceans are as numerous as the bits in two and a half uddhāra sāgaropamas. The pits are filled with bits got from cutting each bit of uddhārapalya into the number of instants in one hundred years. This is addhapalya. Then these bits are taken out one by one every instant. The time taken to empty the pits in this manner is called addhapalyopama. Ten crores multiplied by one crore addhapalyas make one addha sagaropama. One descending cycle of time consists of ten crores multiplied by one crore addhā sāgaropamas. The ascending cycle is of the same extent. The duration of karmas, the duration of particular forms, the lifetime and the duration of the bodies of the beings in the four states must be measured by addha palya. This has been said briefly in this verse.
"Vyavahāra, Uddhāra and addhā must be understood as the three palyas. Vyavahara palya is the basis of enumeration.
The enumeration of continents and oceans is by the second. The duration of karmas is reckoned by the third addhapalya."
These are the same for subhuman beings. तिर्यग्योनिजानां च Tiryagyonijānāṁ ca
39. These are the same for the animals.
Tiryak yoni is the womb of subhuman beings. It means the birth attained on the rise of name karmas of the animal state. Those born from animal wombs are animals. Their maximum lifetime is three palyopamas, and their minimum is antarBetween these two there are several grades.
muhurta.
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