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The seven regions known as Vārthasūtra Ratanaprabha, Śarkarā Prabhā, Vālūkaprabhā, Paṅkaprabhā, Dhūmaprabhā, Tama Prabhā, and Mahātamaprabhā are located above the earth, air, and space, one beneath the other, and the lower ones extend further than those above them.
In that region, there is hell.
That hell is perpetually filled with the most vile leśyā, resulting in bodies, pain, and processes.
And it possesses mutually generated suffering.
Moreover, it contains the sufferings generated by the immensely powerful Asuras from the three realms below it.
In that hell, the excellent conditions of living beings are comparable to one, three, seven, ten, seventeen, twenty-five, and thirty-three oceans.
The lake is divided into three parts: lower, middle, and upper. The lower part is considered to be beneath the flat ground of Mount Meru, measured after nine degrees of depth, and takes the shape of an inverted funnel, meaning it expands downward. Beneath the flat area, nine degrees are counted as below and the nine degrees above that, totaling eighteen degrees, are categorized as the middle lake, which takes the shape of a vessel evenly proportionate in length and breadth.