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The Eleventh Anga
[ I. Lect. 1.
the month allotted for his surcease or death) ?" Then the Samana replied : “Oh, Goyama ! having lived his long life of twenty-six years and after his death at the time of surcease here he will come back again here (ie. he will be born here ) in this very conntry of Bhāraha in the continent of Jambuddiva as a lion in the family of lions on the foot of the mountain Veyaddha. There he will. be an impious (here the remaining epithets to be supplied down to ) adventurous lion, and he will accumulate excessive sin, and having done so and after his death at the time of surcease he will be born in the first region of hell called Rayanappabhā the maximum duration of life where is one sagarovama.1 Then having afterwards come out from that he wili be born as a reptile. Having met with death there he will be born in. the second region of hell the maximum duration of life where is three sāgarovamas.
Then, having afterwards come out from that he will be born among the birds. Having met with death there also he will be born in the
1 Sagarovama, Sk. Sogaropama. A period, measured by the time in which a vast well round in shape and one yojana (four miles) long, one yojana broad and one yojana deep, filled with minute bits of hair so closely packed that a river might be hurried over them without penetrating the interstics, could be .emptied at the rate of one hair in a century, is what is known as a paliovama (Sk. palyopama). This repeated ten kotis of kotis of times (i.e. 1,000,000,000,000,000) is a sa garopama.
