The Doctrine of the Jainas, Described after the Old Sources c7.s3.12

c7.s3.12

Tandulaveyāliya, so called after a calculation (vicāra) as to how many grains of rice (taṇḍula) a normal individual would consume in the course of 100 (years) times 360 (days) times 30 (hours) times 3773 (breaths). (They would fill 22 1/2 vaha.). A jumble of prose, G. and śl. of varying origin. Embryology, the human stages of life, the duration of life in remote times (including a description as to the bodies of Arhats, Cakravartins, etc.) and nowadays when the maximum age comes upto not more than 100 years (s. a.). Measures of capacity and of time. The parts of the body, the quantity of fluids contained by a human being, the body as an impure mass. A contemptuous description of the mothers, mostly laid down in comparisons and etymologies.