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TATTVÄRTHA SŪTRA: THE HEAVENS : 65
• Sāgaropame || 40 || • Adhike ca || 41 || • Paratah paratah pūrvā purvā nantarā || 42 ||
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In Sanatkumāra it is two Sāgaropama (Sā.), In Māhendra it is somewhat more than two Sā. Beyond this heaven, the minimum life span of gods in any heaven is equal to the maximum of those of the preceding ones. According to this rule - • In Brahmaloka it is somewhat more than seven Sā. • In Lántaka it is ten Sā. • In Mahāśukra: fourteen Sā.
In Sahasrara: seventeen Sā. • In Ānata and Pranata : eighteen Sā.
In Ārana and Acyuta : twenty Sā. Beyond Āranācyuta it is twenty-two Sā, in the first Graiveyaka and thirty Sā. in the ninth ; in the four Anuttara vimāna heavens from Vijaya to Aparajita it is one more Sā. i.e. thirty-one Sāgaropama and in the last of the Anuttaravimāna heaven - Sarvārthasiddhi there is no difference in the minimum and the maximum life-spans, Hence in its case both are the same – thirty-three Sāgaropama. (39—42)
Life-spans Of The Hellish Beings - • Nārakānami ca dvitiyādisu || 43 || The (minimum) life-spans of hellish beings of the second hellish
nether ground onwards are, also, (similar to the Vaimānika heavens) same as the maximum life-spans of those of the preceding hellish grounds.
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