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Appendix No. VI
Yuga-pradhāns The Nirvāņa ( Final Emancipation ) of Śramaņa Bliagavān Mahāvira took place in B. C 527.
The Fifth Ar (cycle ) nained Pancama Kāla or Dubsama Kāla of the present Avasarpini era has commencedh go forinights (three years and 84 months ) after the Nirvāņa of Sramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvira. It is of 21000 years' duration. There will be 2004 (two thousand and four ) Yuga-pradhāns ( exalted personages of the age , appearing at different periods of time.
There will be 23 (twenty-three) Udayas (periods of appearance ) during which a varying number of such great personages will be born for each udaya ( period of appearance)
More than 2470 years of the Pancama Kāla have already passed.
During the first Udaya with a duration of 617 years 10 months and 27 days (six hundred and seventeen years, ten months, and twenty-seven days ) there were 20 ( twenty ) yugapradhāns. The Second Udaya with a period of 1340 years 10 month and 29 days ( thirteen hundred and eighty years, ten months, and twenty-nine days had 23 ( twenty-three ) Yuga pradhāns. The accompanying Tables give details,
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