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Bhagavati Sūtra Bk. 1 Ch. 5
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A. 189. 27 forms. Also 27 forms for those endowed with cursory cognition12s. The above (as stated of the Ratna. prabhā hell) is true of the seven hells. Difference is only in tinges124.
Couplet :
First two (impart) ash tinge, The third a mixed type, (ash with blue) The fourth blue only, The fifth a mixed one, (blue with dark) The sixth imparts a tinge dark And the seventh pitchy black.
[on the life of the Asurakumāras)
प्रश्न १९०-चउसठ्ठीए णं भंते! असुरकुमारावाससयसहस्सेसु एगमेगंसि असुरकुमारावासंसि असुरकुमाराणं केवइया ठिइट्ठाणा पन्नत्ता?
उत्तर १९०-गोयमा! असंखेज्ज ठिइट्ठाणा पण्णत्ता। जहणिया ठिई जहा नेरइया तहा नवरं पडिलोमा भंगा भाणियब्वा। सव्वे वि ताच होज्ज लोभोवउत्ता। अहवा लोभोवउत्ता य मायोवउत्ते य अहवा लोभोवउत्ता य मायोवउत्ता य । एएणं गमेणं णेयव्वं जाव...थणियकुमाराणं नवरं णाणतं जाणियव्वं ।
0. 190. Bhante ! What sort of life has been ascribed to each one of the occupants of the 64,00,000 cells allotted to the Asurakumāras ?
___A. 190. Gautama! This has been stated to take innumerable forms. Minimum span is the same as that of the infernals, exception being that the forms need be reversed (as greed, deceit, pride and anger, and not anger, pride, deceit and greed, as in the case of the infernals)125. All are endowed with greed, or many with greed and one with deceit, or many with greed and many with deceit, and so on, and like this of all the species till the Stanitakumāras. Specialities (of each species) should be noted126.
