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## Āgama Sūtra 39, Cheda Sūtra-5, 'Mahānishīth'
**Study/Purpose/Sūtra Number** which causes us to wander repeatedly in the terrible cycle of births.
Then Sumati said that whether he is Kushīl or Sushīl, I will take vows only with him. And then you say that is the Dharma, but who is capable of doing it today? Therefore, leave my hand, I have to go with him. If he goes far away, then meeting will be difficult. Then Nāgil said - O Bhadra Mukha! Going with him will not be your welfare, I give you words of benefit. It is more beneficial to consume that which is more virtuous than this situation. I am not holding you by force.
Now, even after many attempts to prevent it for a long time, he did not stop. And the unfortunate Sumati, O Gautam! accepted vows. After that, when time came, while wandering, after five months, a terrible twelve-year famine struck. Then that ascetic, due to the fault of that time, without doing Pratikramāṇa of the fault, died and was born as a vehicle of Bhūta, Yaksha, Rākshasa, Pishacha, etc. Vyantar Dev. Later, he became a cruel, meat-eating Mlechchha. Due to being of cruel consequences, he was born in the seventh Naraki. From there, he will attain Samyaktva in the third Chaubīsī. After attaining Samyaktva, he will attain Siddhi in the third birth, but the fifth one, who was the biggest, will not attain Siddhi. Because he is completely Mithyādṛishti and Abhavya. O Bhagavan! Is Sumati Bhavy or Abhavya? O Gautam, he is Bhavy. O Bhagavan! If he is Bhavy, then where will he be born after death? O Gautam! He will be born among the Parmadhārma Asuras. Sūtra-678
O Bhagavan! Is it true that a Bhavy Jīva is born among the Parmadhārma Asuras? O Gautam! Those who, despite being told well, disregard the best Hitopadeśa due to the arising of strong Rāga, Dvesha, Moha, and Mithyātva. They consider the twelve Angas and Śrutagyāna as unproven and do not know the harmony and difference of the scriptures. They praise and promote unrighteousness, just as Sumati praised and promoted those ascetics - "He is not a Kushīl ascetic. If even this ascetic is Kushīl, then there is no Sushīl ascetic in this world." I have decided to take vows with those ascetics, and just as you are foolish, so will those Tirthankaras be. By speaking in this way, O Gautam! even after being a great ascetic, he will be born among the Parmadhārma Asuras.
O Bhagavan! Where are the Parmadhārma Devas born after death? O Bhagavan! Where will the Jīva of Sumati go after leaving the Parmadhārma Asura Devas? O Gautam! This unfortunate one, by praising and promoting unrighteousness, approved the destruction of the entire righteous path. Due to the fault of that karma, he earned an endless cycle of births.
Did you say the origin of births? I will tell you some births briefly, even though there is no way to escape from the four Gatis, the same cycle of births, for many Padgal Paravartan Kālas. Listen -
There is a salty ocean surrounding this Jambudvīpa, which is slowly circular. In that place where the Sindhu Mahānādī enters, in the south direction of that region, there is a place called Prati Santapa Dayak, which is twelve and a half Yojanas in size, like the shape of an elephant's trunk, in the middle of a Vedikā that is fifty-five Yojanas in size. That place is seven and a half Yojanas high from the water of the salty ocean. There are forty-six caves in that place, with a sky of a very dark, dense, and dark hour institution. In those caves, there are water-dwelling humans, two by two. They are the ones who are Vajraṛishbhanārch Sanghayanavala, with great strength and power, with a body of twelve and a half Ventas, with a lifespan of countless years, who love liquor and meat. By nature, they are lustful towards women, very dark in complexion, delicate, evil, hard, stony-bodied, with a terrifying face like the leader of the Chandals, with a fierce gaze like a lion, terrifying like Yama Raja, who do not show their backs to anyone, who strike fiercely like lightning, who are proud of being Mānḍhāta. Such are those egg-shaped humans.
By taking the inner golika in their body, they are born from the white tail hair of a cow.