Tattvartha Sutra: 04.39-42

04.39 Aparā Palyopamamadhikam Cha

04.40 Sāgaropame

04.41 Adhike Cha

04.42 Paratah Paratah Poorva Poorvā'nantarā

04.39-42

English:

The minimum life span is of Palyopam and more, two Sāgaropams and more and identical to the maximum in the preceding lower realm.

These sutras give the minimum life spans of Vaimānik beings. It is one Palyopam in the first realm, a little more in the second, two Sāgaropams in the third and a little more in the fourth; it is more than seven Sāgaropams in the fifth, more than ten in the sixth, more than fourteen in the seventh and more than seventeen in the eighth. It is more than eighteen Sāgaropams in ninth and tenth, more than twenty in eleventh and twelfth, twenty-two in the first Graiveyak and so on till it reaches 30 Sāgaropams in the ninth Graiveyak and 31 in four Anuttar realms. In Sarvārthsiddi it is 32 Sāgaropams.