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have died by being misguided by sound like a deer, who have died on sheer ignorance, who have died without repentence, who have died by jumping from a mountain or crushed by a rock, who have died by falling from a tree or by the falling of a tree, who have died for coming to an arid region, who have died by plunging from a mountain or from a tree, or who have died in the sand of a desert, or those who have died by entering into water, by walking into the fire, by administering poison, by piercing one's person with some weapon, by tying a rope round one's throat, by jumping into the sky from the branch of some tree, by entering into some carcass and thereafter being pecked by vultures, by dying in a forest or during a famine, if such people are not in misery at the time of death, then, by dying at some point in the eternal time, they are born in one or an other of the heavens occupied by the Vaṇavyantaras. Their entry in these heavens, their length of stay and their genesis have been stated.
गौतम : तेसि णं भंते! देवाणं केवइअं कालं ठिती पण्णत्ता ?
महावीर : गोअमा ! बारसवारससहस्साई ठिती पण्णत्ता |
गौतम : अस्थि णं भंते ! तेसि देवाणं इड्डी वा जुई वा जसे ति वा बले ति वा वीरिए इ वा पुरिसक्कारपरिक्कमे इ वा ?
महावीर : हंता अस्थि ।
गौतम : ते णं भंते!
महावीर : णो तिण सम ।। ६ ।।
देवा पर लोगस्सा राहगा ?
गौतम : हे भगवन् ! वहाँ उन देवों की कितनी स्थिति होती है ? -
