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## Verse 147
## Path of Motion/169
This also states, while describing the hellish beings in comparison to the Nagas and others:
"Seeing a man associating with sinful people, the Naigamana says, 'Oh great man, he is a hell-being.' [When that man contemplates killing a living being and gathers materials, he is a hell-being according to the Sangrahanaya. The Mashaganama says, 'When a man wanders about searching for deer with a bow and arrow in his hand, he is called a hell-being.' The Rijusutra says, 'When he sits in a hidden place and attacks the sinful deer, he is called a hell-being.' The Sambanaya says, 'When the animal is freed from its life, then that man who is engaged in violence is a hell-being due to the karma of violence.' The Samabhirudhanaya says, 'When a man becomes bound by hellish karma (narakayu) and is associated with hellish karma, then he is called a hell-being.' When that man reaches hell and experiences the suffering of hell, he is a hell-being according to the Ayambhutanaya."
There are seven earths below the lower world - Ratnaprabha, Sharkaraprabha, Balukaprabha, Pankaprabha, Dhumaprabha, Tamahprabha, and MahaTamahprabha. In these seven earths, there are seven hells, starting with the first, whose names are respectively Gharma, Bansha, Shaila (Megha), Anjana, Arishta, Maghavi, and Maaghavi. In those hells, there are 84,00,000 burrows which are the dwelling places of the hell-beings. In those hells, there are respectively one, three, seven, ten, seventeen, twenty-two, and thirty-three sagaropama (ocean-like) superior lifespans. The inferior lifespan in the first hell is ten thousand years. In the subsequent hells, starting with the second, one should understand that the superior lifespan of the previous hell is the inferior lifespan of the subsequent hell.
The hell-beings of the first earth eat the foul-smelling, impure, small amount of earth they get, quickly. From this, one should know that there are countless times more bad food and drink in the subsequent earths.
The sphere of knowledge in the first hell is one yojana in measure. Further, with the loss of half a yojana in each subsequent hell, it becomes only one kosa in the seventh hell. In the first four hells and in two-thirds of the fifth hell, called Arishta, that is, in two lakh burrows, there is the pain of heat. In the remaining one lakh burrows of the fifth earth and in the two lakh burrows of the sixth and seventh hells (100000 + 66695 + 5), there is extreme cold pain.
In the first two hells, there is Kapoteleshya, in the third and fourth hells, there is Neel and Krishna leshya, in the sixth hell, there is Duhkrisna leshya, and in the seventh, there is Mahakrishna leshya. The hell-being born in the first Gharma hell, suffering, jumps up from his birthplace 500 dhanushya (bow) in measure, and in the remaining hells, they jump up twice the distance in each subsequent hell. In those hells, the beings experience Por, Teev, Mahakashtabheem, Bheeshma, Bhayanak, Darun, Bipul, Ugra, and Teekshna suffering.
In 'Swami Kartikeyanupreksha', the suffering of the hells is described as follows: "Narakayu is born in the beings due to the rise of sinful karma and there are five types of many sufferings..."
1. Ga. 1 to 6, Gh. Pu. 7 p. 26-26.
2. Lokavibhag ka va vibhag.
3. Gaatha 34 to 31.