About: Palya

An Entity of Type: album, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org:8891

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. 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.

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • 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. 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. 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. (en)
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 4593691 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 1436 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1055079615 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
gold:hypernym
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • 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. 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. (en)
rdfs:label
  • Palya (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License