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Bhagavai 6:8:137-150
-: 455 - The sixth, seventh and eighth heavens are situated on dense ocean and dense air.
The remaining eighteen heavens-beginning from the ninth-are situated on space. There is no gross water-bodied (beings) and gross vegetation-bodied (beings) underneath them.
If the sixth, seventh and eighth heavens are situated on dense ocean and dense air, how can there be the absence of gross water-bodied (beings) and gross vegetationbodied (beings) underneath them? Abhayadevasūri and Srimajjayācharya have solved the problem by pointing out that immediately under these heavens, there is dense air and beneath it is dense ocean. So, on account of the dense air, the existence of gross water-bodied (beings) and gross vegetation-bodied (beings) have been prohibited there. In the Pravacanasāroddhāra, the situation of the heavenly vimānas have been described as follows:"The vimānas of first two heavens are situated on dense ocean.
"The vimānas of the next three heavens are situated on (dense) air, the vimānas of the next three are on (dense) air and ocean. All the higher heavens are situated on pure space.
"This is the description of the situation of the vimānas of the upper region."0
1. Jīvā. 3.5—ima nam rayanappabhā pudhavī asiuttaram joyanasayasahassam bāhallenam pannattā. 2. Bha. 34.12—apajjatāsuhumapudhavīkāie nam bhamte! sakkarappabhāe pudhavie puratthimille
carimate samohae, samohanittā je bhavie samayakhette apajjattābādarateukkäiyattāe uvavvajjittae se nam bhamte! Katisamaienam-pucchā.
goyamā! dusamaieņa vā tisamaieņa vā viggahenam uvavajjejjā. 3. Bha. Vr. 6.142-nanu yathā bädārāgnermanusyaksetra eva sadbhāvānnisedha ihocyate. Evam bādaraprthivīkāyasyāpi nişedho vācyaḥ syāt pệthivyādişveva svasthānesu tasya bhāvāditi. satyam, kintu neha yadyatra nāsti tattatra nişidhyate manusyādivat. vicitratvāt sütragaterato'sato'piha
prthivīkāyasya na nişedha uktah. 4. Bha. 6.147. 5. Thāņam 3.359,360. 6. Bha. Vp. 6.144 tathā'bvāyuvanaspatīnāmanişedho'pi sugama eva, tayorudadhipratisthitatvenābvana
spatisambhavād vāyośca sarvatra bhāvāditi. 7.(a) Bha. Vr. 6.150ihātideśato bādarābvanaspatīnām sambhavo'numīyate, sa ca tamaskāyasadbhā
vato'vaseya iti. (b) Bha. Jo. 2.108.40,41 -
trtiya turya brahma soya, ghanavāya ādhäre achai tasu tala apa kima hoya? vanaspati vali kima huvai? Il sambhava täsa janāya, tamaskāya sadbhāva thi
atideśa thaki kahivāya, vrtti vişe e nyāya chai II 8. Bha. Jo. 2.108.45-47. 9. (a) Bha. VỊ. 6.150<iha ca<brahmalokoparitanasthânānāmadho yoobvanaspatinizedhah sa
yānyabvāyupratişthitäni teşāmadha ānantaryeņa vāyoreva bhāvādākāśāpratisthitānāmākāśasyaiva bhāvādavagantavyah. (b) Bha. Jo. 2.108.58,59
lamtaka pramukhaja tīna, apavāyu ādhära chai to kina nyāya sucīna, varjī apa naim vanassai? Il trihum kalpa tala vāya, amtara-rahita achai tihām
tasu tala apa ina nyāya, apa vanassai niședha hvai II 10. Pra. Sāro. pa. 160.
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