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jealousy, pride etc. come into power i.e. become Prominent.
Modern science and its ecological and geological evidences The ruins inform of fossils of dinosaurs support these observations. of many years ago, bear witness to their gigantic size. The American science magazine, called Discover' also states that the ruins inform of fossils of birds with the length of 11.5 feet and with wing of the expanse of 23 feet, have been discovered According to the Jaina The mangoose, terminology, this dinosaur is a one type of reptiles. the squirrel, the house-lizard etc. belong to this class of animals. As stated in the 'Jivavicara Prakaraṇa' written by Acarya śri Şantisuriji in the twelth centuary of Vikrama Era and in the Jivabhigama", the Pappavana' and other Jaina canonical scriptures written earlier by the year 450 A.D., the largest size of these living beings is of the length 2 to 9 gaus (1 gau-3.2 kms). It is estimated that this dinosaur is 80 feet in height and 150 to 175 feet in length. According to science, dinosaurs are of different kinds, different sizes and different pecularities. They belong to the mesozoic period. According to the present calculation, dinosaurs lived perhaps nearly seven crore years ago. But the Jaina scriptures mention quite a different calculation. A dhanuşya (bow) is equal to six feet and the length of a dinosaur is nearly 25 dhanuşya (bow). Supposing that the length of a dinosaur was equal to one-third of the height of man, when man was 75 dhanuşya (bow) tall, the dinosaur was 25 feet long. Man's height in the interim of the times of the eleventh tirthankara Sri Sreyansanath and the twelfth tirthankara Śri Vasupujyaswami was nearly 75 dhanuşya. Therefore, it can be said that the dinosaur belonged to that period. According to another calculation, when man was 3 gaus in height (1 gau=3.2 kms) the reptile was 2 gaus in length. Therefore, when man was 1 gau tall, the reptile was 2/3 gau long and when man was 500 dhanusyas tall in the times of Bhagawana Sri Adinatha, the reptile was 333 dhanusyas long. This means that when the dinosaur was 25 dhanusyas long, man was 37.5 dhanusyas tall and man had this height in the interim of the times of Sri Şantinatha, the Sixteenth tirthankara and Sri Kunthunatha the sevenIt, therefore, does not at all seem to be improteenth tirthankara. bable or impossible that the existence of the dinosaur belongs to the period beginning before nearly 47 sagaropamas and ending before nearly at least three sägaropamas. According to the cosmic calendar, the gigantic dinosaur was born on the 30th December and the JainaIt coincides with the 30th time-cycle shows nearly the same. December of the modern cosmic calendar because 365 days of the
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