ཚའ་མཐའ་མད notes.83
The Limits of Life notes.83
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83. According to the Skt., which has the arithmetically correct number. The Tib. deviates (lo bye ba phrag sum ’bum drug khri brgyad stong rtsa gcig = ?). See Guenther 1986, 59: “this is ten million times ten million years and three hundred and sixty-eight thousand times ten million years.” Konchog Gyaltsen’s translation of Gampopa (1998, 99) has: “The life span in the Crushing hell is 2,000 years, which is similar to that of the Free-of-Combat devas. In human terms, this is equal to 103,680,000,000,000 years.”