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Uttarajjhayana 211.22.p1.178

Uttarajjhayaṇa 211.22.p1.178

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211.22.p1.178

aṇantakālam ukkosaṃ | antomuhuttaṃ jahannayaṃ /
vijaḍhaṃmi sae kāe | jalayarāṇaṃ antaraṃ ||178||

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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