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[128] [Prajñāpanā Sūtra, i.e., forty-five lakh yojanas wide, two doors, which touch the limits of the universe in all six directions. Within them, those who are luminous are taken into account here. Its establishment (nature) is as follows: Therefore, this sūtra has been explained from the point of view of practical conduct. From the point of view of the aggregate, the Bādar Aparāpta-Tejaskaayikas are insufficiently luminous, and from the point of view of the space-aggregate, they are present in all the universes. This should be understood as follows: In the middle (interspaces) of the two doors described above, the subtle earth-bodied beings, etc., are born in the Bādar Aparāpta-Tejaskaayikas and perform the death-ending aggregate. At that time, they expand their self-regions outwards to the limits of the universe in terms of their body size in terms of width and thickness, and in terms of length. As will be said further in the Avagāhanā-Saṃsthāna-pada, *[Pr.] "O Bhagavan! How large is the bodily Avagāhanā of the earth-bodied being who has performed the death-ending aggregate?" [U.] "Gautama! (Their bodily Avagāhanā) is body-sized in terms of width and thickness, and in terms of length, it is an innumerable part of a finger and extends to the limits of the universe." After that, they, the subtle earth-bodied beings, etc., extend their self-regions in the form of a staff to their place of origin, and while present in the interspace motion (disintegration motion), they experience the lifespan of the Bādar Aparāpta-Tejaskaayikas, and therefore they are called Bādar Aparāpta-Tejaskaayikas. They exist in the disintegration motion only in the aggregate state, and the beings in the aggregate state permeate all the universes. From this point of view, they are called all-universe-pervading in relation to the aggregate. Other teachers say: The Bādar Aparāpta-Tejaskaayika beings are very numerous; because from the shelter of one sufficient being, innumerable insufficient beings are born. They are also born in the subtle ones, and the subtle ones are present everywhere. Therefore, the Bādar Aparāpta-Tejaskaayikas, at the end of their respective existences, perform the death-ending aggregate and fill all the universes. Therefore, there is no fault in calling them all-universe-pervading from the point of view of the whole, in relation to the aggregate. 'From the point of view of their own place, the Bādar Aparāpta-Tejaskaayikas are in an innumerable part of the universe, because the insufficient beings are born from the shelter of the sufficient ones. The place of the sufficient ones is the human realm, which is only an innumerable part of the entire universe. Therefore, it is appropriate to say that they are in an innumerable part of the universe. * 'O Bhagavan! How large is the bodily Avagāhanā of the earth-bodied being who has performed the death-ending aggregate?' 'Gautama! It is body-sized in terms of width and thickness, and in terms of length, it is an innumerable part of a finger, and in terms of height, it extends to the limits of the universe.' —Prajñāpanā. M. Vṛtti, folio 76, quoted in 1. Prajñāpanā Sūtra Malay. Vṛtti folios 75 to 77.