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Bhagavai 6:6:125-126 puratthimeṇam amgulassa asamkhejjaibhāgamettam vā, samkhejjaibhāgamettam vā, vālaggam vā, vālaggapuhattam vā; evam likkha-jūya-java-amgula jāva joyaṇakodim vā, joyaṇakoḍākoḍim vā samkhejjesu vā asamkhejjesu vā joyanasahassesu, logamte va egapaesiyam sedhim mottuna asamkhejjesu puḍhavikāiyāvāsasayasahassesu annayaramsi puḍhavikāiyāvāsamsi pudhavikaiyatãe uvavajjetā tao pacchā āhārejja vā, pariņāmejja vā, sarīram vā bandhejjā,
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jahā puratthime nam mamdarassa pavvayassa ālāvao bhaṇio, evam dāhine nam, paccatthime nam, uttare nam, uddhe, ahe.
jahā pudhavikaiya taha egimdiyäṇam savvessim ekkekkassa cha älävaga bhāniyavvä.
Does such soul, O Lord, after reaching there, appropriate nourishment, transform it and start building his body?
Gautama! someone among them appropriates nourishment, transforms it and starts building his body. There is again someone who returns from there; having returned from there, he re-enters the present body here and undertakes the märaṇäntika samudghäta second time. Having expanded again his soul-units, he takes birth as earth-bodied being in one of the abodes of earth-bodied beings among the innumerable lakh abodes of earth-bodied beings, which are, in the east of Mount Meru only innumerableth part of the angula away or only numerableth part of one angula away, or only at a distance of one bälägra away, or only at a distance of one pṛthaktva (i.e., between two to nine) bälägras away; in the same way at a distance of one liksä (i.e., equal to the length of a larva of lice), 'one yukā (i.e., equal to length of a lice)', one yava (equivalent to a barley corn), one angula (equivalent to the breadth of a finger)...... up to a crore yojanas, crore times crore yojanas, numerable thousand yojanas or innumerable thousand yojanas away or up to the terminus of the cosmos just before the one space-unit wide linear space-avenue (śreņi). Thereafter, he appropriates nourishment, transforms it and starts building his body.
Like the description of the abode to the east of the Mountain Meru; are to be described the abodes south to, west to, north to, above and below the Mountain Meru in the same pattern as that of the earth-bodied beings; six descriptions are to be made for each of the remaining (four) one-sensed beings.
6.126 jive nam bhamte! māraṇamtiyasamugghāeṇam samohanṇai, samohaṇittā je bhavie asamkhejjesu beimdiyäväsasayasahassesu aṛṇayaramsi beimdiyāvāsamsi beindiyattäe uvavajjittae, se nam bhamte! tatthagae ceva āhārejja vā? pariņāmejja vā? sarīram vā bamdhejjā?
jaha neraiya, evam java anuttarovavāiyā.
A soul, O Lord! undertakes the māraṇāntika samudghäta, i.e., expansion
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