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Bhagavati Sūtra Bk. 5 Ch. 3
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[ movement with life-span ]
प्रश्न ४२ - जोवे णं भंते ! जे भविए णेरइएसु उववज्जित्तए से णं किं साउए संकमइ ? णिराउए संकमइ ?
उत्तर ४२ - गोयमा ! साउए संकमइ णो णिराउए संकमइ ।
प्रश्न ४३ - से णं भंते !
आउ कहिं कडे कहिं समाइणे ?
उत्तर ४३ - गोयमा ! पुरिमे भवे कडे पुरिमे भवे समाइणे एवं जाव... वैमाणियाणं दंडओ
प्रश्न ४४ – से णूणं भंते ! जे जं भविए जोणि उववज्जित्तए से तमाउयं पकरेइ । तं जहा - रइयाउयं वा जाव... देवाउयं वा ?
उत्तर ४४ - हंता गोयमा ! जे जं भविए जोणिं उववज्जित्तए से तमाउयं पकरेइ । तं जहा - णेरइयाउयं वा तिरि-मणु देवाउयं वा । णेरइयाउयं पकरेमाणे सत्तविहं पकरे । तं जहा - रयणप्पभापुढवि णेरइयाउयं वा जाव... ..अहेसत्तमापुढविरइयाउयं वा । तिरिक्खजोणियाउयं पकरेमाणे पंचविहं पकरेइ । तं जहाएगिंदिय-तिरिक्खजोणियाउयं वा । ओ सव्वो भाणियव्वो । मणुस्सा उयं दुविहं देवाउयं चउब्विहं ।
Q. 42. Bhante ! When a soul is to be born in the hell, does it repair to its infernal life with a life-span acquired here or does it repair without such a life-span ?
A. 42. Gautama ! It repairs with a life-span acquired from here, and not without such a life-span.
Q. 43. Bhante ! Where did the soul bind that life-span ? And where did it practise discipline pertaining to ( or consistent with) that life-span ?
A. 43. Gautama ! ( It ) bound the life-span in its previous birth, acquired the discipline in its previous birth, and ( like this )...till the species upto the Vaimānikas.
