Dushama-sushama

Dushama-sushama is the fourth of the six ara of the avasarpini, the descending half of the beginningless Jain cosmic time cycle, an age more unhappy than happy and the last of the four ara measured in the largest cosmic time units before the scale shifts to ordinary years. Jain doctrine holds that liberation, moksha, is possible only during this ara and the one before it, Sushama-dushama, out of all twelve ara in the full cycle. This entry names its position in the cross traditional cycle of world ages this atlas already tracks; the doctrine page elsewhere in this atlas carries the fuller treatment of the avasarpini and utsarpini cycle itself.