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The Tawarathasutra describes the hells as being composed of the first ground to the second, the second to the third, and so forth, up to the tenth ground, classified as unwholesome, more unwholesome, and most unwholesome. In this manner, the beings residing in these hells experience pain, consequence, body, suffering, and activity that are increasingly unwholesome.
In the Shyashratnaprabha, there are “kapat” (a form of suffering) and in the Sharkaramabhava, it is also “kapat”; however, it is more intensely intermingled than in Ratnaprabha. In Valukaprabha, kapat and blue are present; in Pankaprabha, there is blue; in Dhoomaprabha, there is blue and black suffering; in Tama Prabha, there is black suffering; and in Mahtamah Prabha, there is black suffering, yet it is more intense than in Tama Prabha.
With respect to varieties: sound, smell, taste, touch, and words, various forms of resultant consequences in the seven hells are increasingly unwholesome.
The bodies of beings in the seven hells are increasingly unwholesome due to the rise of the unwholesome karmas of suffering, smell, taste, touch, sound, and phenomena, and increasingly impure and horrifying.
The suffering in the seven hells is increasingly intense. In the first three grounds, there is mild suffering; in the fourth, the suffering is moderate; in the fifth, it is a mixture of heat and cold; in the sixth, it is cold; and in the seventh, it is very cold suffering. The suffering due to heat and cold is so severe that it is comparable to the intense heat from a blazing fire or...