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Entry 2387, Page 82, Col. 2 -
(asaMKyeya, asaMKyeya)
asaṃkhyeya, (1)¦ adj. (= Skt. id., Pali asaṃkheyya), innumerable. In Pali (see Childers s.v. kappo) as an adj. applied to kappa (see BHS kalpa), denotes a world-age of a certain extent; in some definitions at least, of a length intermediate between a mahā- and an antara-k°. Acc. to La Vallée Poussin, AbhidhK iii.188, asaṃkhyeya kalpa means here le temps que durent un nombre asaṃkhyeya (10 à la 59me puissance) de mahākalpas. I have not noted the Pali usage in the texts excerpted by me (but see Przyluski, Açoka, 408). Typical of their use of this adjective with kalpa is SP 17.8 asaṃkhyeyaiḥ kalpair asaṃkhyeyatarair vipulair aprameyair acintyair etc., in which asaṃkhyeya has its normal Skt. mg. of innumerable; (2) nt., a very high number: Mvy 7802; 7932 (cited from Gv); Gv 106.20; 134.5; SP 316.7; Sukh 31.2; Divy 245.11 tribhir asaṃkhyeyair; 246.2; 254.3.