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CONTENTS
Publisher's Note Translator's Foreword
BOOK ONE
Introductory Couplet
CHAPTER ONE
Nine questions on karma bondage 5 ; sound, import, suggestions 5; infernal beings: their life-span, respirations and intake 6 ; more on intake 7; variety of intake 8 ; timing of intake 10 ; karma bondage 11 ; Asurakumāras 12 ; Nāgakumāras 15 ; earth-bodies 16 ; two organ beings 18 ; three- and four-organ beings 20; non-human beings with five organs and human beings 21 ; celestial beings 22 ; barm to self, to others, to both, to none 23; knowledge 25 ; non-restrained homeless 26 ; restrained homeless 27 ; course of life of the non-restrained 28
CHAPTER Two
32-50 Self-created misery 32; more on infernal beings 34 ; karma bondage, etc., of infernal beings 35 ; standard of pain of infernal beings 36; intake by Asurakumāras 38 ; earth-bodies 39; two-organ and more organ beings 40 ; man's activities 41 ; celestial beings 43; tinges 43 ; duration in life-cycles 45 ; activities that end all activities 47 ; celestial positions 47 ; life-span of living beings without mind 49
CHAPTER THREE
51-62 Delusion of faith 51 ; suffering from delusion of faith 53; state of being and state of non-being 54 ; bondage of faith-deluding karma 56 ; faith-delusion of infernals and monks 60
