Tattvartha Sutra

Author(s): Sukhlal Sanghavi, K K Dixit
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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TATTVĀRTHA SŪTRA
The Maximum Life-duration in the Case of the Bhavanāpati-nikāya :
In the bhavanas the indras belonging to the southern half have a life-duration of 1į palyopama. 30.
The remaining indras have a life-duration of 13 palyopama. 31.
The two asurendras respectively have a life-duration of one sāgaropama and somewhat more than one sāgaropama. 32.
Here life-duration mentioned in the case of the Bhavanapati-nikāya must be treated as maximum such duration; for the corresponding minimum duration is going to be mentioned in the coming aphorism 45.
The ten types of the Bhavanapati-nikāya-viz. Asurakumāras, Nāgakumāras etc.—have already been described; each of those types has got two indras in the form of a chief of the southern half and a chief of the northern half—that too has been described. Of these the two asurendras—one belonging to south, the other to north—have a maximum life-duration as follows: The asurendra who is a chief of the southern half and is named Camara has a maximum life-duration of one sāgaropama, while the asurendra who is a chief of the northern half and is named Bali has a maximum life-duration of somewhat more than one sāgaropama. And leaving aside the Bhavanapati-type asurakumāra there are nine others—viz. Nāgakumāra etc.; among them the nine indras Dharana etc. who belong to the southern half have a maximum life-duration of 1 palyopama while the nine indras Bhūtānanda etc. who belong to the northern half have a maximum life-duration of 13 palyopama. 30-32.
The Maximum Life-duration in the Case of the Vaimānikas :
In the case of the heavens Saudharma etc. the situation as regards life-duration is as follows : 33.
In the case of Saudharma the life-duration is that of 2 sāgaropamas. 34.