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## Third Pratipati: Eka-Aneka-Vikurvaga
**[245 Gautam!** They are constantly afraid, constantly terrified, constantly hungry, constantly anxious, constantly harassed, constantly experiencing the consequences of karma like a killer, constantly experiencing the ultimate evil, the unparalleled evil, and the continuous evil of hell.
**Similarly, it should be said up to the seventh earth.** In the seventh earth, five great hells, the greatest of the great, have been mentioned, namely: Kal, Mahakal, Rorav, Maharorav, and Apratisthan.
**There, these five great men, having accumulated the most excellent sins of violence, etc., at the time of death, died and were born in the Apratisthan hell as Nairyikas:** 1. Parashuram, the son of Jamadagni, 2. Dridhayau, the son of Lachchati, 3. Uparichar Vasuraj, 4. Subhum, the Kaurava, and 5. Brahmadatt, the son of Chulan.
**They were born there as Nairyikas, who are black in color, with a black image, and extremely black, etc.** This description should be given until they experience the extremely blazing, vast, and unbearable pain there.
**Discussion:** This sutra describes the pain of hell beings related to hunger and thirst, the pain inflicted on each other by the use of various weapons, the pain of cold, the pain of heat, and the pain caused by hell.
**Mouth Pain:** Describing the hunger and thirst of hell beings through false imagination, it is said that if all edible substances were put into the mouth of one hell being and all the water of the oceans was given to him, even then his hunger would not be satisfied, nor would his thirst be quenched.
**A little imagination of this can be obtained from the condition of a man suffering from the most severe burning disease in this human world.** Such hell beings are forced to endure such intense hunger and thirst.
**Weapon Vikurvana Pain:** These hell beings inflict intense blows on each other using various weapons, both single and multiple. They inflict intense pain on each other, therefore they are those who inflict pain on each other. The word "puhuttam" used in the text indicates multiplicity. Through this action, they inflict brilliant, vast, deep, harsh, bitter, rough, cruel, fierce, intense, painful, difficult to obtain, and unbearable pain on others.
**This Vikurvana form of pain should be understood up to the fifth hell.** In the sixth and seventh hells, the hell beings, with vajra-like mouths, become like red and dung beetles, taking the form of large Kunthutras, climb on each other's bodies, and bite and cut, entering deep into the other hell being's body, like the sugarcane worm that eats the sugarcane and sieves it, they sieve the hell being's body and inflict pain.
**Cold, etc., Pain:** The hell beings of Ratnaprabha earth do not experience cold pain, they experience heat pain, they do not experience cold and heat pain. These hell beings are of cold origin. Except for the place of origin, the entire land is hotter than charcoal, therefore these hell beings experience heat pain, not cold pain. The combined pain of cold and heat is absent in hell from the very beginning. In Sharkaraprabha and Balukaprabha, there is also only heat pain. In Pankaprabha, there is also cold pain, and...