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XVIII 7
? (7522) The [1] Vāṇamantaras consume (khavayanti) an infinite number of karmic particles (anante kamm'amse) in one hundred years; the [2] Bhavaņavāsis except the Asurakumāras, the [3] Asurakumāras, the [4] common Joisiyas, the [5] Jois'indas (viz the suns and the moons), the gods of [6] Sohamma and Īsāņa, [7] Sanamkumāra and Māhinda, [8] Bambhaloga and Lantaga, [9] Mahāsukka and Sahassāra, [10] Anaya, Paņaya, Aruna and Accuya, [11] the lower (hitthima), [12] the medial (majjhima) and [13] the upper (uvarima) Gevejjas, [14] the gods of Vijaya, Vaijanta, Jayanta and Aparājiya, and [15] the Savv'atthasiddhas do so in [2] 200, [3] 300, [4] 400, [5] 500, [6] 1000 ... [10] 5000, [1] 100.000 ... [15] 500.000 years.
Cf. Tattv. IV 20 seq.-According to Abhay. the kamm'amsas here are particles of meritorious karman (punya-karma-pudgala); of course the highest classes of gods consume theirs in the longest space of time.
8. ANAGĀRA.
1 (754a) * When a monk who has cultivated his spiritual faculties (a nagara bhāviy'appā), while going forwards (purao), sideways or backwards (duhao), walks in the prescribed way (scil. not] looking [farther than] one yuga (juga-māyāe pehāe rīyam rīyamāna), and a chicken (kukkuda-poya) or a young quail (vattā-poya) or an antlike insect (kulinga) is trodden down (pariyāvajjejjā), he has committed an action in agreement with his religious duties (īriyāvahiyā kiriyā), not a profane and sinful action (samparāiyā k.). For the reason why ref. is made to VII 71. * * Mv. continues his peregrination.
duhao: dvidha: prstataś ca pārsvatah, Abhay.--juga is not yūpa (Abhay.) but yuga, i.e. four hastas or about two meters.--kulinga might be a forktailed shrike or a sparrow but according to Abhay, it is an antlike (pipilik'ādisadrśa) insect.
2 (754b) a. At Rāy. a group of dissidents (annautthiya) reproach Indabhūi [Goy.), contending that the Jainas (tujjhe) are wholly undisciplined and stupid (assamjayā jāva (see VII 2'] eganta-bālā), because they tread on living beings (pāne pecceha etc., jāva referring to VIII 71) while walking in the prescribed way (rīyam rīyamāna). Goy. returns the reproach contending
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