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[120] [Prajñāpanā Sūtra _ [1850 Pr.] Bhagavan! In how many years does the desire for food arise in the Aveyakas, one after another? [1850 U.] Gautama! In the lowest, 30,000 years, and in the highest, 31,000 years, the desire to eat arises in them! 1851. Vijay-Vejayanta-Jayanta-Aparajitāṇam puccha. Go'yamā! Jahaṇṇaṇam ekkatīsāe, ukkosenaṇ te'ttīsāe. [1851 Pr. Bhagavan! In how many years does the desire for food arise in the Vijay, Vaijayanta, Jayanta and Aparajita Devas? [1851 U.] Gautama! In the lowest, 31,000 years, and in the highest, 33,000 years, the desire for food arises in them. 1852. Savvaṭṭhagdevāṇam puccha. Go'yamā! Ajahaṇṇaṇamukkosenaṇ te'ttīsāe vāsasahassāṇam prāhāratte samuppaccajti / [1852 Pr.] Bhagavan! In how many years does the desire for food arise in the Sarvārthaka (Sarvārthasiddha) Devas? [1852 U ] Gautama! In the lowest-highest (without distinction of lowest and highest), 33,000 years, the desire for food arises in them / Discussion-The statement about food for the Vaimānika Devas-The statement about the Vaimānika Devas should be understood as being the same as that of the Jyotiṣka Devas, but the difference is that the Vaimānika Devas have the desire for enjoyment in the lowest day-path, and in the highest, 33,000 years. The rule of 33,000 years for the desire for food should be understood in relation to the Anuttaroppapātika Devas. The rest of the statement should be understood in the same way as it was made in the case of the Asurakumāras. Due to the abundance of auspicious qualities, from the color-yellow and white, from the smell-fragrant, from the taste-sour and sweet, from the touch-soft, light, oily and rough, they transform the old color-smell-taste-touch qualities of the pudgalas into their body-field and eat the Vaimānika food from all the prātmā-regions, they transform those eaten pudgalas into the five senses of hearing, etc., as desired, beautiful, pleasant, auspicious, pleasing, pleasing, desired and especially desired, light, not heavy, pleasant, not unpleasant. 'Special explanation-The Vaimānika Devas who have the status of so many oceans, have the desire for food in so many thousand years. According to this rule, one should understand the quantity of the lowest and highest state of the desire for food in the Saudharma, Iśāna, etc. Devalokas / This is clear1. (a) Prajñāpanā. Prameyabodhinī ṭīkā bhā. 5, p. 512-513 (b) Prajñāpanā. Malayavṛtti, abhi. rā. koṣa bhā. 2, p. 506