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already know that your disciple Mankhali-putra Cośâlaka has alreaady died, and gone to the other world. Arya Kasyapa ! ! am not your disciple Mañkhali-putra Gośālaka but I am an altogether different individual I have assumed the body of Gośālaka out of ridicule but I am not Gośālaka but I am a religious preceptor named Udâyi Kundiyāyana incarnated in the body of Gośalaka This is my seventh incarnation. A question as to why I made so many incarnations, does naturally, arise, and I will explain the reason in accordance with the tenets of my doctrine. Arya! According to the tenets of my doctrine those who have attained Salvation, those who are attaining Salvation and those who will attain Salvation in future all these enlightened souls, will do seven divine bhavas and seven bhavas of mindless animal beings in addition to eighty-four hundred thousand Mahā Kalpas (great cosmic periods), and having done this, they will do seven incarnations, In this way, they have destroyed sixty-five hundred sixty thousand and six hundred and tree Karma-particles; they are at present destroying them and they will destroy them in future.
O Long-lived! Hear attentively, what our Mahākalpas and Mānasa, etc are -
a river
According to our Sastriya technical language, Gangā means which is four hundred yonjanas long, half a yojana broad and five hundred dhanusyas deep.
7. Gangas
Mahā gangā,
7 Mahāgangas-1 Sâdina Gangā. 7 Sādina-gangǎs=1 Mrityu Gangā. 7 Mrityu-gangãs=1 Lohita Gangā.
7 Lohita-gangās=1 Avati Gangā
7 Avati-gangās=1 Parmavati Gangā.
Multiplying, in this way, the preceding one by seven, there are One hundred seventeen thousand six hundred and fortynine (117649) gangās in one Paramāvatî Gangā. The years calculated
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