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SAYA XIII
pudhavil deva"-m-anantara pudhavī4 āhāram eva uvavāe bhāsā? kamm'8 anagăre keyā-ghadiyā samugghāelo.
1. PUDHAVI.
a (596a) * The hells (pud h avi), number and extent ((a)samkhejja-vitthada) of the infernal abodes (niray’āvāsa), number of beings reborn in them within one samaya; the qualities of these beings in the domains of lessā, intellect, capability of salvation, knowledge and non-knowledge, vision (three kinds: cakkhu-, acakkhu- and ohi-damsaņi), instinct (sannā), sex, passion, senses, activity and imagination (sāgārôvautta, anāgārôvautta). The text also deals with the question whether the H are in the first (anantara-uvavannaga) or in a later samaya of their rebirth (parampara-uv.), in the first or in a later samaya of the successive stages of their further development in hell (aņ.- or par.-ogādha, -āhāra and -pajjatta), or whether they are or are not in the last samaya (carima, acarima) of that existence.
Among the qualities of H also figure kanha- and sukka-pakkhiya, explained by Abhay. in a gāhā: he who must stay in samsāra for half a poggalapariyatta (see XII 4comm.) (or less] is 'in the white half', he who must stay longer 'in the black half' [of his existence without beginning and end). b (598b) Their belief.
(599a) Their lessā. * *
2. Deva.
(601a) The same topics in connection with the gods (d eva). * *
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