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59. चंदस्स णं संवच्छरस्स एगमेगे 'उदू एगूणसटुिं रातिंदियाणि रातिंदियग्गेणं पण्णत्ते। संभवे णं अरहा एकूणसद्धिं पुवसतसहस्साई अगारमझे वसित्ता मुंडे जाव पव्वतिते। मल्लिस्स णं अरहतो एगूणसद्धिं ओहिण्णाणिसता होत्था।
Lunar year's each season“, in terms of night and day, is expounded of fifty-nine night and days. Seer Sambhava, having passed fifty-nine lac pūrva years in the house, after tearing his hairs, adopted houselessness (monk hood] from household. Seer Malli ħad five thousand nine hundred clairvoyants.
1. 5 FOIL
Notes
A. Season (rtu) of 59 days: The year (samvatsara) related with the motion of moon is termed as Lunar year. Each lunar year consists of twelve months. There are six seasons of two months each in a year, each season consisting of fifty-nine and 2/62 days and nights". In this case 2/62 has been excluded. The Sthānāngsūtra deals with the five-types of years and their
sub-types. The years are: asterism (nakṣatra) year, period (yuga) year, authentic (pramāna) year, symptomatic (laksana) year and saturn (śaniścara) year. Lunar (candra) year is a sub-type of period (yuga) year. B. Fifty-nine lac pūrva: The span of Seer Sambhavanātha is mentioned in this text as fifty-nine lac pūrva but else where it is mentioned as fifty-nine lac years".
1. Abhayadeva, p. 75. 2. Sthānängsūtra, Ladnun, 5/210-212. 3. Avaśyakaniryukti, Lakhabaval, Gāthā 279.
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