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are arranged at particular distances, and just as, they are connected with each other, in the same way, all āyuşas (allotted terins of life) are fixed at particular intervals from each other. A jiva (living being) makes use of two ayuşas (allotted terms of life) in one samaya (instant) i. e ihabhavika (relating to this world) and also parabhavika (relating to the next world). At the time, when he is making use of the allotted term of life in this world, he is also making use of the allotted term of life of the next world at the same moment. Bhagavan! Is their assertion true?
Bhagavāna:-Gautama! What the followers of Other Faiths say, is not correct I think that the arrangement of allotted terms of life of living beings, does not resemble the arrangement of knots in a net, but one living being can have the same allotted term of life during several bhavas (worldly existences). Also a living being cannot make use of two allotted terms of life at one moment. He can make use of only one allotted term of life i. e. either of ihabhavika (relating to this world) or of parabhavika (relating to the next world).
5. Human Population in Middle World.
* Indrabhūti Gautama:-Bhagavan ! The followers of Other उयं ५०, इहभवियाउयस्स पडिसंवेयणाए नो परमवियाउयं पडिसंवेदेइ, परभवियाउयस्स पडिसंवेयणाए नो इहमवियाउयं पडिसंवेदेति, एव खलु एगे जीवे एगेणं समएणं एग आउयं प० तं जहा-इहम० वा परभ० वा ॥ (सूत्र १८३) ॥
॥ भगवती सूत्रे-शतके ५ उद्देशः ३. ।
॥ पृ-२१३-२१४ ॥
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