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3. ANANTARA.
(604b) Attraction of matter in the first samaya of a H's existence (neraiya anantar 'ahārā) etc., ref. to Pannav. 34:543a-548b. **
4. PUDHAVI.
1 (604b) The extent of the hells (puḍhavi) and the extent of guilt and pain (maha- resp. appa-kammayara, -kiriyayara, -asavayara and -veyanayara) of their denizens increase with their serial number (Rayanappabha down to Ahesattamā).
panca aṇuttara mahaimahālayā [mahānagarā] jāva Apaiṭṭhāne: see Jiv.
goa.
2a (606a) The touch of earth, water, wind, fire (!) and plants pains H.
Cf. Jiv. 127a. The texts have puḍhavi-phāsam... ău-ph. evam jāva vaņassaiph. where java according to Abhay. stands for tejas- and vayu-kayika-sparsa, although there is no actual fire (bādara tejas-kayika) in the hells; cf. VI 81.
2b (606a) The comparative extent of the hells, ref. to the second Neraiya-udd., Jiv. 127a.
2c (606a) Earth-beings (puḍhavi-kkāiya) etc. in the hells, ref. to [the same] Neraiya-udd. 127 b.
3a (606a) The centre (āyāma-majjha) of the world (loga) is situated in the intermediate space of [scil. under, see Lehre par. 107] Rayaṇappabhā, at a distance equal to of [the thickness of] that space [and of course horizontally in its centre]: Rayanappabhāe pudhavīe uvās’antarassa asamkhejjai-bhāgam ogāhettā. The centre of the nether world is situated in the intermediate space of the fourth hell, Pankappabha, a little bit more than half [its thickness] (sairegam addham ogāhettā) under that hell. The centre of the upper world is situated in the story Ritthavimāņa (R.-vimāṇe patthaḍe), in the heaven Bambhaloga above the heavens Saņamkumara and Mahinda. The centre of the central, or horizontal, world (tiriya-loga) is the so-called Cube of Eight Space-units (aṭṭha-paesiya ruyaga) in the [middle of
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