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भगवती सूत्र श: १ उः ७ प्रश्न २४०-देवे णं भंते! महड्ढिए महज्जुइए महब्बले महायसे महेसक्खे महाणुभावे अविउक्कंतियं चयमाणे किंचकालं हिरिवत्तियं दुगुंछावत्तियं परिसहवत्तियं आहारं नो आहारेइ। अहे णं आहारेइ आहारिज्जमाणे आहारिए परिणामिज्जमाणे परिणामिए पहीणे य आउए भवइ । जत्थ उववज्जइ तं आउयं पडिसंवेदेइ। तं जहा तिरिक्खजोणियाउयं वा मणुस्साउयं वा?
उत्तर २४०-हंता गोयमा!
देवे णं महड्ढोए जाव...मणुस्साउयं वा।
Q. 237. Bhante! Does the soul have an angular movement ? Or, does it have a straight movement147 ?
A. 237. Gautama ! The soul has sometimes an angular movement and sometimes a straight movement. And so...till. the Vaimānikas.
Q. 238. Bhante! Do souls have an angular movement ? Do they have a straight movement ?
A. 238.. Gautama ! Many have an angular and many have a straight movement.
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Q. 239. Bhante ! Do the infernal beings have an angular movement ? Or, do they have a straight movement ?
A. 239. Gautama ! All may have a straight movement ; or, many may have a straight movement and one an angular movement ; or, many may have a straight movement and many an angular movement. And so three forms for all beings, except the one-organ beings.
Q. 240. Bhante ! A great deva, with great prosperity, great halo, great strength, great fame, great ability, great heart, at the time of death, due to shame, indignation and pain, does have no intake for sometime, and then has it, and the intake transforms ; now, his celestial existence terminates. Henceforth he enjoys the life-span of the place where he is born. What may be that life-span-of an animal or of a human being148 ?
