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URDHVALOK JAIN CONCEPT OF COSMOLOGY
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reaches 30 Sägaropams in the ninth Graiveyak and 31 in four Anuttar realms. In Sarvärthsiddi it is 32 Sägaropams.
नारकाणां च द्वितीयादिषु ॥४-४३॥ दशवर्षसहस्त्राणि प्रथमायाम् ॥४-४४॥ 4.43: Narakānām Cha Dwitiyadishu 4.44: Dashvarshasahasräni Prathamäyäm
(From second infernal level downward the minimum is identical to the maximum for the immediate upper level. In the first level it is 10000 years.)
These sutras lay the minimum life spans of infernal beings. It is 10000 years in the first level, one Sägaropam in the second, three Sägaropams in the third level, seven in the fourth, ten in the fifth, seventeen in the sixth and twenty-two Sägaropams in the seventh.
भवनेषु च ॥४-४५॥ व्यन्तराणां च ॥४-४६॥ परापल्योपमम् ॥४-४७॥ 4.45: Bhavaneshu Cha 4.46: Vyantaränäm Cha 4.47: Parä Palyopamam
(The minimum for Bhavanapati and Vyantara groups is 10000 years and the maximum is Palyopam.)
ज्योतिष्काणामधिकं ॥४-४८॥ ग्रहाणामेकम् ॥४-४९॥ नक्षत्राणामर्धम् ॥४-५०॥
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