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Uttarajjhayana 211.22.p1.188

Uttarajjhayaṇa 211.22.p1.188

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211.22.p1.188

logegadese te savve | na savvattha viyāhiyā /
itto kālavibhāgaṃ tu | vocchaṃ tesiṃ cauvvihaṃ ||188||

Winged animals are of four kinds: those with membranous wings, those with feathered wings, those with wings in the shape of a box, and those (which sit on) outspread wings. (187)
188, 189 = 159, 160.
The longest duration of the life of aerial animals is an Asamkhyêya-part of a Palyôpamâ; the shortest is less than one muhûrta. (190)
The longest duration (of the aerial animals’ continuance in the same kind of body) is an Asamkhyêya-part of a Palyôpamâ plus from two to nine Krores of former years; the shortest is less than one muhûrta. (191)
192, 193 = 159, 160. c. Men are of two kinds; listen to my description of them: men originating by generatio aequivoca, and men born from the womb. (194)
Those who are born from the womb are of three kinds: those living in the Karmabhûmi, those living in the Akarmabhûmi, and those living on the minor continents. (195)
They have, in the same order, fifteen, thirty, and twenty-eight subdivisions. These are the numbers handed down. (196)
Men originating by generatio aequivoca are of as many kinds. They all live but in a part of the world. (197)
Verses 198-202 = 183-186. (Substitute, 'men' for 'terrestrial animals.') d. Gods are of four kinds; listen to my description of them: 1. Bhaumêyikas; 2. Vyantaras; 3. Gyôtishkas; 4. Vaimânikas. (203)
There are ten kinds of Bhavanavâsins ( = Bhaumêyikas), eight of those who live in woods ( = Vyantaras), five of Gyôtishkas, and two of Vaimânikas. (204)

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

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