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## [Prajñāpanā Sūtra]
**144]** The **Aśubha (unfortunate)** are **Naraka (hells)**. In those Narakas, there are **Aśubha pains**. Here, the locations of the **Tamas-Tamaḥ-Pṛthvī** (dark earth) Narakas, both sufficient and insufficient, have been described. In relation to **Upapāta** (rebirth), they are in an innumerable part of the **Loka** (world). In relation to **Samuddhāta** (emergence), they are in an innumerable part of the **Loka**. And in relation to **Svasthāna** (own place), they are also in an innumerable part of the **Loka**. O **Ayushman Śramaṇa** (venerable monk)!, in these (aforementioned places), many **Nairyika** (hell beings) reside in the **Tamas-Tamaḥ-Pṛthvī**. They are described as black, with black radiance, (terrible) causing deep tremors, fearful, excellent tormentors (causing terror), and extremely black in color. They (hell beings) live in constant fear, always terrified, always causing terror to each other, always distressed (by sorrow), and always experiencing the direct experience of the extreme misfortune and associated fear of hell.
**(Meaning of the Sangrahaṇī Gāthās)** (The thickness of the Naraka-Pṛthvīs, in numbers exceeding one lakh, are as follows): 1. Eighty (thousand), 2. Thirty-two (thousand), 3. Twenty-eight (thousand), 4. Twenty (thousand), 5. Twelve (thousand), 6. Sixteen (thousand), and 7. The lowest one, eight (thousand). (The word 'Yojana' should be added to all of them).
**133**
**(The land area of the Naraka-vāsa)** (Leaving one thousand Yojanas above and below, up to the sixth Naraka: in numbers exceeding one lakh): 1. Seventy-eight (thousand), 2. Thirty (thousand), 3. Twenty-six (thousand), 4. Eighteen (thousand), 5. Sixteen (thousand), and 6. Fourteen (thousand) in the sixth Naraka-Pṛthvī. All these are numbers exceeding one lakh Yojanas.
**134-135**
**(The number of Naraka-vāsa)** (Up to the sixth Naraka, in numbers exceeding one lakh): 1. (In the first Pṛthvī) Thirty (lakh), 2. (In the second) Twenty-five (lakh), 3. (In the third) Fifteen (lakh), 4. (In the fourth Pṛthvī) Ten lakh, 5. (In the fifth) Three (lakh), and 6. (In the sixth Pṛthvī) One less than five (lakh), and 7. (In the seventh Naraka-Pṛthvī) only five **Anuttara Naraka (hell)**.
**136**
**Discussion:** The description of the locations of the Nairyika - These eight Sūtras (Sū. 167 to 174) shed light on the number of locations of the general Nairyika and then, in order, the locations of the Nairyika of the seven Narakas, the nature of those locations, and the nature and circumstances of the Narakas residing in those locations. The descriptions mentioned in the texts and Sūtras are mostly similar, except for a few things.
**The number of Naraka-vāsa:** The total number of Naraka-vāsa in the seven Narakas is 84 lakh, which is described in the Sangrahaṇī Gāthās. In addition, the description of where the Narakas reside (in which region) is also given in the aforementioned Sangrahaṇī Gāthās, such as: 1. Leaving one thousand Yojanas above and one thousand Yojanas below, the Narakas of the first Pṛthvī reside in the middle region of one lakh seventy-eight thousand Yojanas; and so on.
The description of the location, etc., of the Narakas of the seven Pṛthvīs is mostly similar.
1. See Sangrahaṇī Gāthās - Paṇṇavaṇā Sutta (Mūlapāṭha-Ṭippana) Bhā. 1, p. 54-55.