Doctrine of Jainas

SR No.: 011097
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Walther Shubring, Wolfgang Beurlen
Publisher: Motilal Banarasidas
Publication Year: 1978
Total Pages: 309
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 17 MB

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DOCTRINE OF THE JAINAS and Mahāroruya, with their vertex pointing outward form a frame round the 5th circular one, called Appaitthāna.l The latter measures 100,000 joy in diameter 2 The different hells in the Rayanappabhã are 3,000 joy in depth, and they are something like egg-shaped Within them it is dark 3 except for a glow of fire, 4 slippery with fat, pus, blood and filth, evil smelling as if of decay, and a touch causes pain in the descriptions given by the Sūy. and Utt (except the reference of Utt. 19, 48) the hells are considered hot only; in the Jiv. their three uppermost regions are hot, whereas the two lowest are cold, in the 4th and 5th we have both in the extreme; heat prevails in the former, cold in the latter.
$109 The earlier conception-already mentioned abovestill represents the beings occupying the hells as humans who, in these hells, partly at certain designated places, rivers and the Veyālıya mountain, suffer the most exquisite punishments by cruel warders (Sūy. 1 5; Utt. 19, 47 ff). Acc. to later conceptions the hells are populated by beings (neraiya)5 totally different from humans. They look black and ghastly, they resemble plucked birds, they are sexless, emanate a smell of decay and cause pain when being touched They greatly yary in size, the maximum being in each region twice that of the preceding and reaching up to 1,000 dhanu They suffer from hunger and thirst, heat and cold, and even though they themselves cause terror, they live in constant indescribable fear of mutual persecution in the most different shapes into
1 Less accurate are the earlier statements made by Sūy II 2, 66 f. Dasā 6, 15f-Pannav 79b, Jiv 102b, te nam naragă anto vastā, takım cauramsa, ahe khurappa-samthāna-samthiya They must not be referred (as JACOBI does in Sūy ) to the inside and outside of the various bells Comp S III
2 This it shares with the Jambuddiva ($ 113), the Palaga-janavimāna in Sohamma and Savvatthasiddha (§ 129 ) (Thân 250 b) Comp. the näli s 95.
3. For its motivation see Thān 263 a
4 nicc'andhayāra-tamasā kāữ (or kāuy', Sûy wrong kanhã) aganidann'abhä
5 Acc to Viy 230b the world of hell is covered with hell-beings down to a depth of 400 to 500 joy (samāinna)