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river, keep them in the heat of tne Sun for baking during the day, and will eat them. These will be the means of subsistence for people living during the twenty-one thousand years of the Duhsama-duhsamâ kāla in Bhārata-varsa.
Indrabhuti Gautama :-Bhagavan ! Where will these miserable persons, who are characterless, virtue-less, shameless, vowless, and mostly flesh and fish eaters go after death? Where will they be born ?
Bhagavāna -Cautama ! They will repeatedly be born as Narakas (denizens of hell) or as tiryancas (lower animals- brutes) during their future lives as lions, tigers, leopards, crows, pea-cocks, water-cranes, Sarabha (a kind of deer), vultures, wolves, and other carnivorous animals.
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From Rajagriha Nagara śramaņa Bhagavāna Mahāvîra went to Apăpă Nagarî (Pāyāpuri) A magnificent Samavasarana was prepared by gods in the Udyana of the town. Requested by Ganadhara Maharāja Indrabhútı Gautama, for an explanation about * Kala Cakra (Cycle of Time). Sramana Bhagavana Mahavira also gave a detailed account of Pahşama Kala (Fifth Ara) of Jaina Hagiolog: .
*इय बोहन्तो भविए पजन्ते विहरिओ अपवाए । इयं च समोसरणं देवेहि चउनिकाएहि ॥४८॥ भवयं कहेइ धम्मं सदेवमणुयामुराए परिसाए। पुट्ठो य गणहरेणं भय ! कि कालचक्कस्स ॥४९॥ भरहे एत्थ सरुवं भूयं मव्वं समासओ कहइ । उस्सप्पिणि ओस्सप्पिणिरुवस्स कहेइ तो भयवं ॥ ५० ॥ सुसमसुसमा य मुसमा सुसमदुसमा य दुसममुसमाय । दुसमअइदुसमावि य ओसप्पिणिएउ छच्च समा ॥ ५१ ।।
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