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Samavāya twenty-two
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अद्धमासाणं आणमंति वा पाणमंति वा ऊससंति वा नीससंति वा। तेसि णं देवाणं बावीसाए वाससहस्सेहिं आहारट्टे समुप्पजति।
The longevity, at the most, of those gods, manifested in celestial abodes Mahita, Viśruta, Vimala, Prabhāsa, Vanamāla and Acyutāvatarsaka, is expounded twenty-two ocean-similes. These gods breathe in or breathe forth or exhale or inhale [once] in every twenty-two fortnights and feel hunger after twenty two thousand years. 22[4] संतेगतिया भवसिद्धिया जीवा जे बावीसाए भवग्गहणेहिं सिज्झिस्संति जाव सव्वदुक्खाणं अंतं करेस्संति॥
Among the fit to be liberated ones, the few will liberate up to will annihilate the entire miseries (free from the world cycle) in the [subsequent] twenty- second re-birth.
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