One palya is the length of time it takes to build a cube

Cube

In geometry, a cube is a three-dimensional solid object bounded by six square faces, facets or sides, with three meeting at each vertex. The cube can also be called a regular hexahedron and is one of the five Platonic solids. It is a special kind of square prism, of rectangular parallelepiped and...

 of lambswool

Lambswool

Lambswool is wool which is 50mm or shorter from the first shearing of a sheep, at around the age of seven months. It is soft, elastic, and slippery, and is used in high-grade textiles....

 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

Century

A century is one hundred consecutive years. Centuries are numbered ordinally in English and many other languages .-Start and end in the Gregorian Calendar:...

.It has also been defined as the length of time it would take a little bird to empty a well one mile square full of fine hairs, if it carried away one hair every hundred years.

The palya is the unit of time used to describe when the Lord Adinath came to India. More specifically it was 100,000,000,000,000 palyas ago.

The concept of Palya was born of the desire to quantify relative dimensions in time and space in proportion to the achievement of Nirvana

Nirvana

Nirvāṇa ; ) is a central concept in Indian religions. In sramanic thought, it is the state of being free from suffering. In Hindu philosophy, it is the union with the Supreme being through moksha...

 or some similar enlightened state.

Equally likely it was made up as a means for a teacher or swami to say the answer is too large to comprehend, don't bother trying, while giving the impression that the teacher could understand.

See also

• Rajju
  Rajju
  One Rajju or Rajlok is the distance covered by a deva flying for six months at the rate of 2,057,152 Yojans every Samay . It can also be equivalent to the distance traveled in 6 months by a ball of iron weighing 1,000 Bhar let fall freely from Swarga, home of Indra...
  
  
• Yojan
• Religious cosmology
  Religious cosmology
  A Religious cosmology is a way of explaining the origin, the history and the evolution of the universe based on the religious mythology of a specific tradition...
  
  
• Hindu cosmology
  Hindu cosmology
  In Hindu cosmology the universe is, according to Hindu mythology and Vedic cosmology, cyclically created and destroyed.-Description:The Hindu cosmology and timeline is the closest to modern scientific timelines and even more which might indicate that the Big Bang is not the beginning of everything...
  
  

2.
adj 1. good, fine. 2. alright, proper, correct.
Pitjantjatjarra (Central Australian dialect) word meaning good, typically wati palya is "good man" or kunga palya is "good woman"