Book Title: Tattvartha sutra
Author(s): Umaswati, Umaswami, D S Baya
Publisher: Agam Ahimsa Samta Evam Prakrit Samsthan

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________________ TATTVĀRTHA SUTRA: NETHER AND MIDDLE WORLDS : 43 • Parasparodīritaduḥkhāh || 4 || • Sariklistāsurodíritaduhkhāśca prākcaturthyāḥ || 5 || (The hellish beings in these hells) suffer from the pain inflicted and harassment meted out by others of their kind. On the grounds prior to the fourth, that is on the first three grounds, they also suffer from the pain inflicted and harassment meted out by the evil-hearted demons. (3-5) Tesvekatrisaptadaśasaptadaśadvavimiśatitrayastrim śatasāgaropamāh satvānāni parā sthitih || 6 || The maximum life-spans of the hellish beings residing in these hells are respectively - one săgaropama, three sāgaropama, seven sāgaropama, ten sägaropama, seventeen sāgaropama, twenty-two ságaropama, and thirty-three sāgaropama respectively. (6) (Sagaropama' is an immeasurably large unit of time period, peculiar to Jaina conept of time, which spans over innumerable years. It is said that if a pit admeasuring a Yojana (approximately thirteen kilometers) cube is filled with further undividable pieces of finest hair and a piece taken out every hundred years, the time taken to empty the pit will constitute a period of one Palyopama. 104 (100,000,000,000,000) such Palyopamas make one Sāgaropama.) Middle World - • Jambūdvīpalavanodayaha subhanāmāno dvīpa samu drāhā || 711 Jambūdvipa (Jambu-continent) etc. and Lavana-samudra (Salt ocean) etc. are, resectively, the continents and oceans bearing auspicious names. (7) Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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