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154 जहनेण विउकोसेण वि अंतोमुहुत्ताउअमिति"। अथैते सर्वे पूर्वोक्ता उत्कृष्टतो जघन्यतोऽन्तमुहूत्तायुषस्तत्किम् ? उच्यते, मुहूर्तस्य असङ्ख्यातभेदत्वादति गाथार्थः ॥ ३८॥ . ___D. C. The suksma subtle) beings, are the minute beings in the form of the elements viz Earth, Water, Light, Wind, and the Vegetables (Sādhārana many-souled) beings are the living beings that have many souls in only one body The term 'Ca (and) used twice expresses addition.
Sammūrcchima Manusyas are those living beings that originate from the foeces, or urine, or coughed-out material or nasal secretions or vomited matter or bile or semen or blood, or, cloth saturated with semen, or dead bodies or sexual intercourse with a male and a female, or cesspool of the town, or all dirty places, and the like of the embryo-born human beings in the 101 Ksétra (places) within the 45 hundred thousand yojanas of the Manusya-ksétra.
The heighest and the lowest limits of all these fall within a Muhûrta; for, a Muhûrta is divided into asankhyāta parts. (38).
पूर्वोक्तद्वारद्वयं निगमयन्नाह
ओहागणा-ऽऽउमाणं एवं संखेवओ समक्खायं ।
जे पुण इत्थ विसेसा विसेस-सुत्ताउ ते णेया ॥ ३९ ॥ 39 Ohāgaņā” äumāņam évam sankhévaö samakkhàyam i
Jé puņa ittha visésā visésasuttau té ņeyă 39. [अवगाहनाऽऽयुर्मानमेवं संक्षेपतः समाख्यातम् ।
ये पुनरत्र विशेषा विशेष-सूत्रेभ्यस्ते ज्ञेयाः ॥ ३९ ॥ Avagahanā āyurmanévam sanksepataḥ samākhyātam i Yé punaratra višeşā višesąsütrebhyasté jnéyāḥ 391 ____Trans. 39. In this way, the length of the body, as well as, the periods of life, Kave been succintly enumerated. However, the details in this matter are to be known from the Main Sources.
