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and action are strong whereas perception and annihilation are weak. With AM all four are either strong or weak so that there is a permutation of sixteen possibilities. **
5. CARAMA.
1 (7686) With 'final' (car ama, carima) HAM karman, action, karmic influx and perception are weaker (they are appakammatarāya etc.) than with 'foremost' (parama) HAM because of [the shorter] duration [of their present quantum of life] (thiim paducca). With G the reverse is true.
carama beings indeed are alpa-sthiti scil. have nearly finished their quantum of life, whereas parama beings are mahā-sthiti scil. have still a long life-time before them, Abhay.
2 (76gb) Perception (veyaņā) is conscious (nidāya) or unconscious (anidāya), ref. to Pannav. 35 end: 557a-b. **
The text has nida ya aạidā ya and so has the comm. according to which nidā is a subst. deriving from dā 'to clean and means jñāna; cf., though, Lehre par. 86 and Viy. I 2o.
6. Diva.
(769b) The continents and oceans (div a -samuddā), ref. to Jiv. [Div.] 176a seqq. **
7. BHAVANA.
(7702) Number and appearance of the abodes of the gods (bh a v an'āvāsa with the Bhavaņavāsis, bhomejja-nagar'āvāsa with the Vāṇamantaras, vimāņ'āvāsa with the Joisiyas and the Vemāņiyas): the 6.400.000 abodes of the Bhavaņavāsis are made of precious stones (savva-rayana-maya) and so are the įhundred thousands of Vānamantara-abodes and the Vemāniya-abodes of which only those in Sohamma are said to be 3.200.000 in number; the hundred thousands of Joisiya-abodes are made of crystal (savva-phāliha-maya). * *
Cf. KIRFEL, Kosmographie pp. 264, 271, 276 and 297.
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