Sudha Sagar Hindi English Jaina Dictionary

Author(s): Rameshchandra Jain
Publisher: Gyansagar Vagarth Vimarsh Kendra Byavar

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Addhapalya. These are significant terms. The first is called vyavahāra palya as it is the basis of the usage of the other two palyas. There is nothing which is measured by this. The second is uddhāra palya, as the continents and oceans are numbered by the bits of wool drawn out. The third is addhā palya. Addha means duration of time. Now the first palya is described. Three pits of the extent of one yojana (Consisting of 2000 kro sas) long, one yojana broad and one yojana deep, based on the measure of pramāṇāmgula, are dug out. These are packed with the smallest ends of the wool of rams from one to seven days old, the bits incapable of being further cut by scissors. This is called vyavahāra palya. Then the small bits of wool are taken out one by one once in every one hundred years. The time taken for emptying the pits in this manner is called Vyavahāra palyopama. Each bit is again cut into so many pieces as there are instants in innumerable crores of years. And (Imagine that) with such pits the bits are filled up. This is called uddhāra palya. Then these bits are taken out one by one every instant. The time taken for emptying the pits in this manner is called uddh ar palyopama. Ten crores multiplied by one crore uddh ärpalyas make up one Uddhāra sāgaropama. The continents and oceans are as numerous as the bits in two and a half Uddhāra sāgaropamas. The pits are filled with bits got from cutting each bit of uddh arpalya into the number of instants in one hundred years. This is addhapalya. Then these bits are taken out one by one every instant. The time
taken to empty the bits in this manner is called Addhapalyopama. Ten crores multiplied by one crore addhapalyas make one addhāsāgaropama. One descending cycle of time consists of ten crores multiplied by one crore addhās āgaropamas. The asending cyle is of the same extent. The duration of karmas, the duration of particualr forms, the lifetime and the duration of the bodies of beings in the four states must be measured by addha palya. This has been said briefly in this verse. "Vyavahāra, Uddhāra and addha must be understood as the three palyas. Vyavahāra palya is the basis of enumeration. The enumeration of continents and oceans is by the second, the duration of Karmas is reckoned by the third addhāpalya. S-3/38. Pankti -if- Terrace, Tier.
Pañ cajatyah: Five varieties of reduction of fractions.
Pañcayatana - पंचायतन A temple surrounded by four minor shrines. afusa Pan dita A learned man, Scholar. Pañcarasika - पंचराशिक Rule of
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Palyopama - An innumerable quantity of years. Palyopama satprthaktva - पल्योपम सत् gerard Pit simile set lying between 300-900.
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Pan nathi - quest - 256 or 65536. पञ्चमहाकल्याणरूप पूजा - (Pañca Mahā Kalyāņa rūpa pūjā) - According to Jainism when an arhat is conceived, is born, is first engaged in penances, is in a state of attaining perfect knowledge