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birth, as a servant-god anong subordinate gods, acting as Bervant gods called Abhiyogika gods.
16. This ita abhiyoga, Practice of fascination by charms and incantations, leading to a birth among Abhiyogika gods, is of two kinds viz. 1. pof t Dravya Abhiyoga, that practised through the medium of any object such as a fruit or flowers or any other object subjected to the influence of incantations; and 2. Ta frat Bhava Abhiyogn that practised by incantatious and mental influence.
The Future Bhāvas of Celestial Beings. 24. The Ta Gati, the future existence of celestial beings is explained in the following two verses :
जंति सुरा संखाउय गम्भय पज्जत मणुयतिरिएसु ।
पज्जत्तसु य बायरं भूदगपत्तेयगवणेसु ॥१॥ 1. Janti sura sankhâuya gabbhaya pajjatta minuyatiriègu,
Pajjattòsu ya bāyaram, bhudagapatteyagavanèsu.
1. Celestial beings (after death) are born as well-developed (TUT Garbhaja-Born from & womb,) human beings, and lower animals and also as well-developed gross one-sensed beings such as earth-bodied or water-bodied souls or as a regraf Pratyöka vanaspati-kāyika (Vegetable-bodied ) with an individual soul for each member, ( for which they had an intense longing during their celestial life ) with an age-livnit of limited calculable trets Sankhāuya number of years. 2. ufa Furre-f otava o stati
आणयपमुहा चविउं मणुएसु चेव गच्छति ॥२॥ 2. Tattha vi Saņam kumāra-ppabhai egindiesu no janti,
Anaya pamuhā cavium maņuèsu ceva gacchanti,
2. Even then, celestial beings beginning with Sanat Kumāra to Sahasrāra gods both inclusive ) are not born as onesenced beings Celestial beings from Anata deva-loka to those of
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