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Karmagrantha Part Four
From time immemorial,
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There are countless hell beings, but the countless number of hell beings is countless times greater than the countless number of humans. The number of hell beings is described in the scriptures as follows: There are main periods of time for the descending and ascending cycles. And in the region of the seven-stringed, dense, localized world, in the region of the Anga-only, there are as many index categories as there are in the second square root of the first square root of the number of index categories. The number of hell beings is equal to the number of regions in the index categories. This can be understood by imagining that there are 256 creation categories in the Anga-only region. The first square root of this is 16, and the second is 4, which when multiplied together gives 64. There are 64 index categories, and according to the 3,200,000 regions of each index category, there are 64,204,600,000 entrances, and there are that many hell beings.
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This was done by multiplying 16 by 4. For each index category, there are
Countless are the Bhavanapati Devas. The number of Asura Kumaras among them is described as follows: The number of Asura Kumaras is equal to the number of entrances in the index categories that can fit in the countless part of the first square root of the number of regions in the Anga-only sky region. Similarly, the number of Naga Kumaras and other Bhavanapati Devas should be understood in the same way.
To understand this number, imagine that there are 256 entrances in the Mangala-only sky region. Their first square root will be 16
1 - The number of hell beings in the Gommatasara is two, which does not match this number. For this, see the 152nd verse of the Jivakanda.
2 - The Gommatasara does not give a separate number for each category, but shows the number of all Bhavanapatis together. For this, see the 160th verse of the Jivakanda.