A palya is a length of time used in Jainism to describe when the Lord Adinath ("First Lord") came to India, 100,000,000,000,000 palyas ago.[1][2] A palya is defined as the time it takes to build a cube of lambswool 1 (or possibly 100) yojans high (between 4 and 9 miles or 6.4 km and 14.5 km), if one strand was laid down every century.
A palya is the length of time it would take to empty a well a mile square stuffed full of fine hairs, if one hair were removed every century.[1]
The concept of Palya was born of the desire to quantify relative dimensions in time and space in proportion to the achievement of Nirvana or some similar enlightened state.
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[edit]- ^ a b Pratt, James B. (1917). Book review, The Harvard Theological Review, Vol. X, p.303. Harvard University Press. [ISBN unspecified].
- ^ Sharma, Suresh K. and Sharma, Usha (2004). Cultural and Religious Heritage of India: Jainism, p.85. Mittal Publications. ISBN 9788170999577.
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