Thursday, August 18, 2016

WHAT'S TEN QUADRILLION? 10,000,000,000,000,000

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You've got to love this!!!!!!!!!!
In Chaitanya Bhagavata there is a descrition of the march on the Kazi in protest of his stopping the public sankirtan. Srila Vrndavana das Thakur writes that there were so many devotees in that march that no one knew where they were all coming from. There were millions and millions and millions and they just kept coming. There was no where near that many people in Navadvipa at that time. It was like an unlimited ocean of devotees in that march. 

Here is a description of the number devotees involved with the Yadu dynasty. The numbers are inconceivable.

"The members of the Yadu dynasty were so numerous that it would be very difficult to describe them all even if one had a duration of life of many thousands of years. Srila Sukadeva Gosvami informed Maharaja Pariksit that he had heard from reliable sources that simply to teach the children of the Yadu dynasty, there were as many as 38,800,000 tutors or acaryas. If so many teachers were needed to educate their children, one can simply imagine how vast was the number of family members. As for their military strength, it is said that King Ugrasena alone had ten quadrillion soldiers as personal
bodyguards." KB 2.35

What's ten quadrillion? 10,000,000,000,000,000 or one hundred thousand billion.

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