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THE SCIENTIFIC FOUNDATIONS OF JAINISM
We now enter the progressive half cycle where the successive time sections are:
(7) extremely unhappy, mmm (8) unhappy, mm (9) more unhappy than happy, mmh (10) more happy than unhappy, mhh (11) happy, hh (:12) extremely happy, hhh.
Note that (1) and (12), (2) and (11) etc are similar. The cycles are represented in Figure 6.3 and the area contained in each sector for m and h reflects the above ideas. Thus the full cycle, containing twelve
A
Regressive
half-cycle
PS
-
-
longest section
has bain
de hr than kasas "
AN 24 hrs
Reappearance of Tirthan kara
Mahavira
1463 Be
21000 ка
Jambu last Liberated
Progressive half-cycle !
aooo AD
Fig. 6.3
One Jain universal temporal cycle (clock-wise) and circular histogram o. the level of happiness and misery (h = happiness, m = misery, in shaded area); a broken are indicates very large periods. The regressive half-cycle from the point P.
