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* For Viy. VI 52-3 cf. Thāņa (ed. 1937) 409b. The following diagram is found in Abhay.'s comm. on Viy, and Thāna:
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2 Arcimälin
1 Arci
Supra tişthābha
3
Vairocana
9 Rista
7 Sukrābha
5 Candrabha
4 Prabha mkara
6 Sūryābha
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The Black Fields (Viy. VI 52–3).
3 (271b) The abodes of the Logantiya gods in the intermediate spaces between the Black Fields, ref. to Jiv. 406a. Two mnemonic gāhās. **
The names of the vimānas (Acci = Arci etc.) and the groups of gods that inhabit them (Sārassaya = Sārasvata etc.) are the same as those recorded by KIRFEL, Kosmographie p. 306, with one exception: according to the Viy. the northern vimāņa, Supaithābha (Supratişthābha), is inhabited by the Aggicca gods, while Rițţha (KIRFEL's Arista) is the name of a group of gods living in the ninth (viz central) vimāņa Ritthābha. In the Viy. there are 14.014 (instead of 7.007) Vanhi and Varuņa gods.
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