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Samavāya thirteen
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तेरस सागरोवमाई ठिती पण्णत्ता। ते णं देवा तेरसहिं अद्धमासेहिं आणमंति वा पाणमंति वा ऊससंति वा नीससंति वा। तेसि णं देवाणं तेरसहिं वाससहस्सेहिं आहारट्टे समुप्पजति।
The longevity of gods, manifested in celestial abodes Vajra, Suvajra, Vajrāvarta, Vajraprabha, Vajrakānta, Vajravarņa, Vajraleśya, Vajradhvaja, Vajraśrnga, Vajrakūta, Vajrottarāvatansaka, Vaira, Vairāvarta, up to [Vairaprabha, Vairakānta, Vairavarna, Vairalesya, Vairarūpa, Vairaśrnga, Vairasrsa, Vairakūa and Vairottarāvatarsaka, Loka, Lokāvarta, Lokaprabha, Lokakānta, Lokavarna, Lokaleśya, Lokarūpa, Lokaśrnga, Lokasssa, Lokakūa and] Lokottarāvatansaka, is expounded as thirteen ocean-similes. These gods breathe in or breathe forth or exhale or inhale (once] in every thirteen fortnights and feel hunger after thirteen thousand years. : 13[4] 11.37petuaren Haftlerer vital et defe qarul folostrifa ya सव्वदुक्खाणं अंतं करेस्संति।
Among the fit to be liberated ones, the few will liberate, up to will annihilate the entire miseries in the [subsequent] thirteenth re-birth.
11. Fid-1531 yoll
Notes A. There are three sources of activity in a being — mind, speech and body. Numerous categories of activities from a variety of of angles are discussed in Jaina canons. This three important classification of kriya are : thirteen types mentioned in Sūtrakstānga", seventy two types mentioned in Sthānāngasūtra", and twenty five types mentioned in Tattavārthsūtra'. Besides some descriptions of activities are also available in Prajñāpanāsūtra".
1. Sūtrakstānga, Ladnun, 2/2/2. 2.' Sthānāngasūtra, Ladnun, 2/2-37. 3. Tattavārthsūtra, 6/6. 4. Prajñāpanāsūtra, Ladnun, pada 22.
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