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Uttarajjhayana 211.22.p1.173

Uttarajjhayaṇa 211.22.p1.173

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Ardhamāgadhī Prakrit

211.22.p1.173

macchā ya kacchabhā ya | gāhā ya magarā tahā /
suṃsumārā ya bodhavvā | paṃcahā jalayarāhiyā ||173||

Fishes, tortoises, crocodiles, Makaras, and Gangetic porpoises are the five kinds of aquatic animals. (173)
174, 175 = 159, 160.
The longest duration of the life of aquatic animals is one Krore of former years; the shortest is less than one muhûrta. (176)
The longest duration of the aquatic animals’ continuance in the (same kind of body) is from two to nine Krores of former years. (177)
178 = 83.

Hermann Jacobi 1895, Uttarâdhyayana Sûtra (Gaina Sûtras II, SBE 45)

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