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Bhagavati Sūtra Bk. 7
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Those born from eggs and with foetus may be male, female or impotent, but those born without mating by the parents are invariably impotents. In general, they have six tinges, three outlooks, three types of knowledge and three corresponding ignorances, three activities and three instruments. They hail from all the four species and they go to all the four. Their minimum life-span is less than a muhūrta, and the maximum is an infinitesimal fraction of a palya. Attention has been given to the dimension of the four vimāņas, viz., Vijaya Vaijayanta, Jayanta and Aparājita. They are very vast. If a heaven-born covers 850740 18/60 yojanas in a single step and walks incessantly like this for six months, then it is likely that he will see the end of some vimāņas, but not that of most others.
86-91. The distinction is between karma which gives bitter experience, as it happened to the followers of Skandaka and karma which gives pleasant experience, as it happened to King Bharata. However, the distinction between säyā-veyaņijja and asāyā-veyaņijja, on the one hand and kakkasa-veyaņijja and akakkasa-veyaņijja, on the other, must be deemed to be a very subtle one.
110. Bhoga has been rendered as ‘enjoyment'. It should be read both in positive and negative senses throughout the text.
124. Khiņa-bhogi refers to one with poor physical capacity, maybe due to hard penance or chronic illness. Such a person whose enjoyinent becomes limited cannot be said to be renounced in any sense. But if he renounces within the limit of his capacity, he can still exhaust karma and enter into liberation.
136. Ohasanna implies knowing something in a very general way. Hence it is synonymous with darśaņa. When
