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may generate an addition of karma of a similar nature, and so although at the end of the following maximum times, the particular karma would all be rid from the soul, yet the soul would be in combination with fresh karma if the inflow has not been stopped.
The maximum durajton of a jñanāvaraniya karma could not be more than 3,000,000,000,000,000 sāgaropamas; of a darśanāvaranīya karma the same ; of a vedaniya karma the same ; of a mohaniya karma 7,000,000,000,000,000 sāgaropamas: of a nāma karma 2,000,000,000,000,000 sāgaropamas; of a gotra karma the same; of an antarāya karma 3,000,000,000,000,000 sāgaropamas.
This subject is being considered with a view to showing how the samyaktva can be reached; and so far as the samyaktva is concerned the āyuḥkarma is necessary and is not taken into account.
A sägaropama is one thousand billion (that is to say in figures 1,000,000,000,000,000) palyopamas.
A palyopama is an innumerable (not infinite, but having a limit) quantity of years, so great that it cannot be numbered. An innumerable quantity is a limited quantity and wili in time be exhausted. An infinite quantity will never be exhausted.
Although the above numbers are immense, still, in view of the theory that so far as the past is concemed, we have not been without karma, the duration of our various karmas has already been considerably more than the above mentioned numbers of years. Divisions of Time
In Jaina idea of time the smallest division is called a samaya'. In a wink of the eye, for instance, and such similar durations, there are innumerable samayas.
Innumerable samayas would make one avali.
16,777,216 avalis make one muhūrta (equal to 48 minutes, English time).
30 Muhurtas would make one day. 15 Days would make 1 fortnight, etc.
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