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Spoke 1 of the wheel

Suṣamā-suṣamā

सुषम-सुषमा

Happy-happy. Lasts 4 crore-crore sāgaropama.

The best age. People are born as twins, live three palyopama, stand six thousand bows tall and eat once in three days. Ten kinds of kalpavṛkṣa supply everything. There is no farming, no property, no law, no king, and no religion — because there is nothing to renounce and nothing to want.

Conditions match Devakuru and Uttarakuru, which stay this way permanently.

Suṣamā-suṣamā4 ×10¹⁴ sāgar.Suṣamā3 ×10¹⁴ sāgar.Suṣamā-duḥṣamā2 ×10¹⁴ sāgar.Duḥṣamā-suṣamā1 ×10¹⁴ less 42k yrDuḥṣamā21,000 yearsDuḥṣamā-duḥṣamā21,000 yearsDuḥṣamā-duḥṣamā21,000 yearsDuḥṣamā21,000 yearsDuḥṣamā-suṣamā1 ×10¹⁴ less 42k yrSuṣamā-duḥṣamā2 ×10¹⁴ sāgar.Suṣamā3 ×10¹⁴ sāgar.Suṣamā-suṣamā4 ×10¹⁴ sāgar.AVASARPIṆĪ ↓descending · everything diminishesUTSARPIṆĪ ↑ascending · everything returnsKĀLA CAKRAone full turn =20 crore-crore sāgaropamaBharat and Airāvat onlywe are here5th spoke of a descending halfc. 2,500 of its 21,000 years goneThe twelve spokes are drawn equal. They are not: the first alone outlasts the last two beyond ordinary counting.
The wheel of time — Suṣamā-suṣamā highlighted

Measurements and counts

MeaningHappy-happy
Length4 crore-crore sāgaropama
Human lifespan3 palyopama
Human height6,000 bows
Food taken3 days
In descending orderAvasarpiṇī spoke 1
In ascending orderUtsarpiṇī spoke 6

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समयं गोयम! मा पमायए

Do not be heedless, Gautama, for even a single samaya.

Uttarādhyayana Sūtra 10