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SAYA XIV
Caram'l ummāyasarīre; poggala4 aganīó tahā kim-āhāreb samsiļķham? antare: khalu anagāre' kevalī10 c'eva.
1. CARAMA.
1 (630a) * If a monk who has cultivated his spiritual faculties (bhāviy'appā aṇagāra) dies and merits more than (võikkanta, lit. surpasses) a certain ('carama') heaven (dev'āvāsa) but does not merit (lit. reach, asampatta) the next one, he is reborn in the lateral intermediate [heaven] (pariyassao probably a printing error for "passao) the lessā of which corresponds with his own. If he then does not comport with (virāhejjā) that heaven, he 'falls back' (padivaļai = pratipatati aśubhataratām yāti, Abhay.) as to karmic lessā (kamma-lessam eva) [and consequently falls down to the lower heaven?]. Otherwise he obtains the right lessā and stays there (eyām-eva lessam uvasampajjittānam viharai). This applies to all the classes of gods.
pariyassao = paripārsvatas ... madhyama-vartini dev’āvāse : e.g. if the monk deserves more than Sohamma but does not deserve Sanamkumāra, he is reborn in Isāņa (which is on a level with Sohamma), Abhay.--'Karmic lessā', i.e. lessā as a condition (bhāva-leśyā), not material lessă (dravya-leśyā) because the latter is well defined (avasthita), Abhay.
2 (630a) Rebirth takes much less time than it takes a strong man to bend or stretch his arm, clench or unclench his fist or open or shut his eyes. In fact it only takes one samaya or, in the case of a deflected course [of the being, scil. to reach its new place of origin, cf. I 72, VII 1'] (viggahenam) two, three or, at most, namely with A', four samayas.
3 (632b) HAMG experience either the first moment of their rebirth (aņaạtaróvavannaga : padhama-samayôv.) or a later mo
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