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difference between transitions of three and of four samayas the comm. is not very clear. It seems to imply that the soul takes (1) an anuśreni course if both starting-place and place of destination are situated in a main direction, and (2) a visreni course if the starting-place is situated in an intermediate direction. E.g. if a being dying outside the tube some place in the N.W. of the nether world must go to some place outside the tube in the upper world, it first moves to the N. or the W., then enters the tube, rises to the upper world and reaches its new place of origin. Of course, if the place of destination is also situated in an intermediate direction, the above interpretation would make a pañca-samayiki gati (thus Abhay.) necessary; the text, however, does not speak of such a transition. Also cf. VII 1'.
b Again this theory is developed for the four hundred cases mentioned in 1d above. The transitions are the same everywhere except with fire-souls. If (957b3) Adying outside the 'tube' in the nether world must be reborn as coarse fire-beings in Samaya-khetta, the transition takes two or three samayas, scil. follows a once or a twice deflected course. If (957b penult.) coarse fire-beings dying in Samaya-khetta must be reborn outside the 'tube' in the upper world the transition takes two, three or four samayas. If (958a3) the same must be reborn in Samaya-khetta the transition takes one, two or three samayas.
c (95829) Application of the same theory to souls moving from the upper world to the nether world with the same divergences in the case of the coarse fire-beings.
d (958a penult.) Application of the same theory to souls moving from some place on the eastern border of the world (logassa puracchimilla carim'anta) to another place on the eastern border: the transition here takes one, two, three or four samayas, scil. follows a straight, a once deflected or a twice deflected course ega-payarammi aņu-sedhi (for °dhim or °dhie) or visedhim resp. Other circumstances being the same, (958b penult.) the transition from E. to S. takes two, three or four samayas, (95997) the transition from E. to W. takes one, two, three or four samayas, and (959011) the transition from E. to N. again takes two, three or four samayas.
e = d but starting from (959a ult.) the S., (959b7) the W. and (959b9) the N.
3 (959b penult.) Further particulars on certain classes of Al that have been discussed above: their abodes (thāņa, ref. to
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