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[136] "The *Prajñāpanā Sūtra* says: 'Many *Nairāyikas* wander about, black in color, with black aura, their hair standing on end in fear, terrifying, causing great fear, and extremely black in complexion.' Therefore, they are always afraid, always trembling, always terrified by the *Asuras*, always anxious, and always experience the extreme suffering of their hell, directly experiencing it." [167] "O Bhagavan! Where, in what way, and how many are the places of the *Nairāyikas*, both those who have attained and those who have not attained? Where do the *Nairāyikas* reside?" [167] "O Gautama! In relation to their own place, they reside in seven *Pṛthvīs* (earths). And they are as follows: (1) *Ratnaprabhā*, (2) *Śarkarāprabhā*, (3) *Vālukāprabhā*, (4) *Pankaprabhā*, (5) *Dhūmaprabhā*, (6) *Tamaḥprabhā*, and (7) *Tamastamasprabhā*. In these seven *Pṛthvīs*, there are eighty-four lakh *Narkāvāsa* (hells). These *Narkāvāsa* are round on the inside and square on the outside, with a shape like a knife at the bottom. They are enveloped in perpetual darkness, devoid of the light of the planets, moon, sun, stars, and other celestial bodies. Their floors are covered with a layer of fat, grease, pus, blood, and flesh, making them impure, disgusting, extremely foul-smelling, and of a fiery color like a pigeon. They are hard to touch, unbearable, and inauspicious. There are inauspicious pains in the hells. In these inauspicious *Narkāvāsa*, the places of the *Nairāyikas*, both those who have attained and those who have not attained, are described. In relation to *Upapāta*, they are in an innumerable part of the *loka*. In relation to *Samudghāta*, they are in an innumerable part of the *loka*. And in relation to their own place, they are also in an innumerable part of the *loka*. In these *Narkāvāsa*, many *Nairāyikas* reside. O *Āyushman* *Śramaṇa*, they are described as black, with black aura, their hair standing on end in fear, terrifying, causing great fear, and extremely black in complexion. They are always afraid, always trembling, always terrified by the *Asuras*, always anxious, and always experience the extreme suffering of their hell, directly experiencing it." [168] "O *Bhanta*, where are the places of the *Nairāyikas* who reside in the *Ratnaprabhā Pṛthvī*, both those who have attained and those who have not attained? O *Bhanta*, where do the *Nairāyikas* who reside in the *Ratnaprabhā Pṛthvī* wander about?" "O *Gotama*, in this *Ratnaprabhā Pṛthvī*, eighty thousand *yojanas* to the north, one thousand *yojanas* to the east, one thousand *yojanas* to the west, and eighty thousand *yojanas* in the middle, there are thirty thousand *Narkāvāsa* of the *Nairāyikas* who reside in the *Ratnaprabhā Pṛthvī*. They are round on the inside and square on the outside, with a shape like a knife at the bottom. They are enveloped in perpetual darkness, devoid of the light of the planets, moon, sun, stars, and other celestial bodies. Their floors are covered with a layer of fat, grease, pus, blood, and flesh, making them impure, disgusting, extremely foul-smelling, and of a fiery color like a pigeon. They are hard to touch, unbearable, and inauspicious. There are inauspicious pains in the hells. In these *Narkāvāsa*, the places of the *Nairāyikas* who reside in the *Ratnaprabhā Pṛthvī*, both those who have attained and those who have not attained, are described."