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continuously born in the human species must take leave of it after seven or eight births.
TATTVÄRTHA SUTRA
Not all the animals have the same kayasthiti or the same bhavasthiti, and so in their case the two require to be mentioned in details. Thus bhavasthiti appropriate to the earth-bodied beings is 22000 years, that appropriate to the water-bodied beings 7000 years, that appropriate to the air-bodied beings 3000 years, that appropriate to the fire-bodied beings 3 days and nights. In the case of all these four kāyasthiti measures a period of asankhyāta utsarpini-cum-avasarpiņi. Bhavasthiti appropriate to the plantbodied beings is 1000 years, kāyasthiti appropriate to them a period of ananta utsarpiņī-cum-avasarpiņī. Bhavasthiti appropriate to the two-sensed beings is 12 years, that appropriate to the three-sensed beings 49 days and nights, that appropriate to the four-sensed beings 6 months. In the case of all these three kāyasthiti measures a period of asankhyāta thousand years. In the case of the five-sensed animals bhavasthiti is different for those born out of a womb and those born by way of agglutination. Thus among those born out of a womb bhavasthiti appropriate to the water-born beings, the uragas (a species of serpent), the bhujagas (a species of serpent) is 1 crore purvas, that appropriate to birds one by asankhyāta palyopama, that appropriate to the land-born quadrupeds 3 palyopamas. Similarly, among those born by way of agglutination bhavasthiti appropriate to the water-born beings is one crore pūrvas, that appropriate to uragas 53000 years, that appropriate to bhujagas 42000 years, that appropriate to birds 72000 years, that appropriate to the land-born beings 84000 yeras. In the case of five-sensed animals kāyasthiti appropriate to those born out of a womb measures a period of seven or eight births, that appropriate to those born by way of agglutination measures a period of seven births. 17-18.
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