Agam 05 Ang 05 Bhagvati Vyakhya Prajnapti Sutra Part 02 Bhagvai Terapanth

SR No.: 006599
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Tulsi Acharya, Mahapragna Acharya, Mahendramuni, Nathmal Tatia
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 2009
Total Pages: 740
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Agam, Canon, & agam_bhagwati
File Size: 20 MB

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Bhagavai 6:8:137-150
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the infernal lands (such as gem-hued etc). In the higher heavens (above the first fiveheavens), and the black streaks, the Sūtras concerning gross water-bodied (beings), gross fire-bodied (beings) and gross vegetation-bodied (beings) are to be understood.
Bhāsya 1. Sūtras 137-150
The gem-hued land is the first amongst the seven infernal lands. Its thickness is 1,80,000 yojanas.' Underneath it, there are no houses, shops, moons, suns, planets, constellations and stars; nor there is the lustre of moons and suns; nor there are gross fire-bodied (beings). The exception to this rule is that during the transit, when the aparyäpta sūksma prthvikāyika jīva, (i.e., the subtle earth-bodied soul in the state of unaccomplished bio-potential), which dies at the eastern border of the second pebble-hued infernal land, after undertaking the (māraṇāntika) samudghāta (i.e., expansion or projection of the soul-units outside the body impending death), in order to take reincarnation as aparyāpta bādara agnikāyika jīva (i.e., the gross fire-bodied soul in the state of unaccomplished bio-potential) in the samayakşetra (the region where the empirical time prevails)—the human world, has to pass through the gem-hued infernal land. Under such circumstance, it is said that there is gross fire-bodied beings underneath the gem-hued infernal land.
Like the absence of fire-bodied beings, underneath the gem-hued infernal land, there is also the absence of earth-bodied beings. But the Sūtra is reticent about this absence. Abhayadevasūri, in this connection, writes that propounding of the negation of that which is not existing at that place is not always necessary in the Sūtra."
In the Bhagavati, in connection with the Saudharma and īśāna heavens, there is explicit mention of gross earth-bodied beings with the fire-bodied beings.
In the Thānam, three causes, each of the calamities of draught and excessive rain, are mentioned. One of these causes is the wrath of a deva (god), nāga (serpentine), yakșa (treasure-keeper) or bhūta (devil).
The following table gives the description about the rain, the thunder and their doer underneath the seven infernal lands and the 12 heavens:
Rain Thunder
Doer
Underneath the Infernal Land/Heaven
Yes
Yes
Deva, asura, nāga
Gem-hued Pebble-hued Sand-hued Mud-hued Smoke-hued
Deva, asura Deva