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XXXIV. THE TWELVE EG’INDIYA-SEDHI
[AVANTARA-]SAYAS.
Avanta rasa y a 1.
1 (954b) a Repetition of XXXIII i ra.
b If an undeveloped fine earth-being (apajjatta-suhuma-pudhavi-kāiya) dies on the eastern border (puracchimille carim'ante) of Rayaņappabhā and must be reborn as a being of the same species on the western border (paccacchimille c.-a.) of Rayaņappabhā, its transition takes one, two or three samayas (ega-samaieņa vā du-s. vā ti-s. vā viggahenam uvavajjejjā).
Answering Goy.'s question (se ken'attheņam ...) Mv. explains that he proclaims a theory of seven possible lines (sed hi). Lines indeed are straight (ujjuy'āyaya), deflected once or twice (egayao- and duhao-vamka), [forming a rectangular figure] open at one side (egayao-khaha) or (a 4 shaped figure] open at two sides (duhao-kh.), circular or semicircular (cakkavāla, addhacakkavāla); cf. XXV 3? If souls reach the place of their new embodiment by a straight, a once deflected and a twice deflected course (sedhi) the transition (viggaha) lasts one, two and three samayas resp.
d What has been said under b above is true in four hundred cases viz 4 cases (the apajjatta-suhuma being becomes an apajjatta-suhuma, a pajjatta-suhuma, an apajjatta-bāyara or a pajjatta-bāyara being) x 5 (the being may be reborn among the five kinds of Al) x 4 (the original being may be apajj.-suh., pajj.-suh., apajj.-bāy., pajj.-bāy.) x 5 (the original being may belong to the five kinds of A1).
With fire-beings there is a slight difference because the coarse
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