Number 6 of 21 · the innumerable
Utkṛṣṭa Parītāsaṃkhyāta उत्कृष्ट परीतासंख्यात
The greatest of the Parītāsaṃkhyāta, the 2nd rank on the ladder of number.
Jain mathematics grades quantity into twenty-one kinds: three numerable , nine innumerable and nine infinite . Each rank comes in a least, a middle and a greatest, and each greatest is one less than the least of the rank above, so the twenty-one tile the whole of number without a gap.
This rank carries no separately named quantity; it is defined by its neighbours, as most of the twenty-one are.
what one samaya is paramāṇu pradeśa one atom crosses one point of space, at its slowest = one samaya why it cannot be divided A cloth tears in an instant. But each thread parts after the one before it, and each thread is countless fibres. Parting one fibre takes innumerable samaya. counted in samaya 1 Liberation the soul's rise to Siddhaśilā, never turning 1–4 Vigrahagati the passage from one body to the next 8 Kevalī samudghāta a soul fills the whole loka and returns asaṃ. One āvalikā innumerable samaya · ≈ 1/5,800 second 2 → Antarmuhūrta more than an instant, less than 48 minutes the ladder of number 21 kinds · 3 numerable, 9 innumerable, 9 infinite ANANTA the infinite Utkṛṣṭa Anantānanta kevalajñāna knows all of it at once Madhyama Anantānanta the space-points of aloka Jaghanya Anantānanta Utkṛṣṭa Yuktānanta Madhyama Yuktānanta the siddhas · the souls in nigoda Jaghanya Yuktānanta = the number of abhavya souls Utkṛṣṭa Parītānanta Madhyama Parītānanta Jaghanya Parītānanta utkṛṣṭa asaṃkhyātāsaṃkhyāta + 1 ASAṂKHYĀTA the innumerable Utkṛṣṭa Asaṃkhyātāsaṃkhyāta Madhyama Asaṃkhyātāsaṃkhyāta the space-points of the loka fall here Jaghanya Asaṃkhyātāsaṃkhyāta Utkṛṣṭa Yuktāsaṃkhyāta Madhyama Yuktāsaṃkhyāta Jaghanya Yuktāsaṃkhyāta = the samaya in one āvalikā Utkṛṣṭa Parītāsaṃkhyāta Madhyama Parītāsaṃkhyāta Jaghanya Parītāsaṃkhyāta utkṛṣṭa saṃkhyāta + 1 SAṂKHYĀTA the numerable Utkṛṣṭa Saṃkhyāta the four śalākā pits, less one Madhyama Saṃkhyāta Jaghanya Saṃkhyāta = 2 · counting begins here → the four śalākā pits: how the greatest numerable number is fixed The samaya, and the ladder of number — Utkṛṣṭa Parītāsaṃkhyāta highlighted Measurements and counts Position 6 of 21 Class the innumerable Rank Parītāsaṃkhyāta Degree Utkṛṣṭa — greatest
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