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Bhagavai 3:4:172-183
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3.181 se bhamte! kim egaocakkavālam gacchai? duhaocakkavālam gacchai?
goyamā! egaocakkavālam pi gacchai, duhaocakkavālam pi gacchai. Can a cloud, O Lord! traverse space like a wheel unilaterally or bilaterally?
O Gautama! It can traverse unilaterally as well as bilaterally like a wheel. 3.182 jugga-gilli-thilli-sīyā-samdamāniyā taheva.
The same description follows with reference to a plain palanquin, elephant-saddle, mule-cart, covered palanquin and a palanquin of the length of a human beivng.
Bhāsya 1. Sūtras 172-182
Here it has been queried about the creation of varied shapes or exercise of protean power by an air-bodied being and taking natural shapes by clouds. The reason is that the clouds are inanimate objects, and as such, devoid of the power, effort or impetus of creating shapes voluntarily, their transformation being mechanical. They traverse space by the impetus given by air or gods. In the Thānam, there is mention of motion of clouds as due to air or gods.? Semantics cakravāla--wheel.
1. Bha. Vị. 3.172-174balāhakasyājīvatvena vikurvaņāyā asambhavāt pariņāmayitumityuktam,
pariņāmaścāsya viśrasārūpah ‘no āyaddhie' tti acetanatvānmeghasya vivakṣitāyāḥ śakterabhāvānnātmarddhyā gamanamasti, vāyunā devena vā preritasya tu syādapi gamanam. 2. Thānam, 3.359.
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Kimlesovavāya-padam 3.183 jīve nam bhamte! je bhavie neraiesu uvavajjittae, se nam bhamte! kimlessesu
uvavajjai? goyamā! jallessāim davvāim pariyāittā kālam karei, tallessesu uvavajjai, tam jahā—kanhalessesu vā, nīlalessesu vā, kāulessesu vā. evam jassa jā lessā sā
tassa bhāniyavvā. jāva - The Topic of which Leśyā at Birth 'Among the infernals, of what leśyā (psychic colour), O Lord! is the soul destined to be born as infernal, born? O Gautama! It is born among the infernals of the same material colouration as it appropriates at the time of its death, for instance, among the infernals of black leśyā, or blue leśyā, or grey lesyä, according as appropriating black, blue or grey leśyā respectively. Similarly the material leśyā that is
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