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The numbers of hells, Bhavaņavāsi-abodes and vimāņas are the same as those recorded by KIRFEL, Kosmographie p. 319 (cf. Tattv. III 2), p. 264 and p. 297 (cf. Tattv. IV 22) resp.
2 (68b) Calculation (permutations!) in how many beings (HAMG) one, two, three or all of the four passions are found. The beings are enumerated according to the different abodes and within each group the ten following 'items' (thāna), enumerated in an introductory gāhā, are taken into account: quantity of life, size, body, joining of the bones, shape, lessā, belief, knowledge, activity (joga) and spiritual activity (uvaoga). There is one mnemonic gāhā at the end of the discussion of the H. * *
6. JAVANTA.
1 (67b) The notion 'contact' (puttha no apuțțha, also āņupuvvim no aņāņupuvvim) appears in the theories of solar radiation and the limits of the world and the non-world:
a. The range (jāvaiyão [jāvaiya = jāv a n ta] uvās'antarão) and the field (jāvaiya khetta) of solar radiation are the same at sunrise and sunset; for the compact character of that radiation in the six directions the text implicitly refers (kim puttham obhāsei aputtham obhāsei? jāva chad-disim obhāsei) to Pannav. 28,1:499a (where ref. is made to the Bhās'uddesaya, i.e. Pannav. 11:261b-262a).
phus[s]amāne puţthe : cf. I 11. 2 (78b) = b. The same implicit reference is made also in connection with the limits of the world and the non-world the contact between which is further illustrated with four similes: the sea and the island, the water and the raft, the cloth and the hole, darkness and light.
The word ānupuvvi in connection with the limits of the world and the non-world etc. is explained by Abhay.: prathame sthāne lokantas tato 'nantaram dvitiye sthāne 'lokânta ity evam avasthānatayā spršati ... (local meaning); in connection with sin (see below) it is explained: pūrva-paścādvibhāgo ... yatra (temporal meaning). In the word will again have the temporal meaning. 3 (79b) Likewise, with HAMG, the action (kiriyā) of injuring
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