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human beings-black, blue, ash, red, pink, white; Bhavanapatis and Vāṇavyantaras-black, blue, ash, red;
Jyotiskas-red;
denigens of first and second heavens-red; of third, fourth and fifth heavens-pink; beyond fifth heaven--white.
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64. As to fortune, the Pannavaṇā Sūtra states as follows: the top-most position is held by those with white tinge, and then the fortune diminishes by degrees, till the lowest position, with minimum fortune, which is held by those with black tinge. Or, reversing the order, as one goes higher up from the black-tinged ones, fortune increases by degrees, till it is the highest for the white-tinged ones.
65. In this answer, the view held by some heretics and nonfollowers, viz., that animals, after death, are born as animals (pasavaḥ paśuttamasnuvate) is rejected in favour of one which establishes cross-transmigration over a wider field. This is happening from eternal past, a soul taking a body in one or another of the four existences. This cross-transmigration is called duration in life-cycle.
66. Three situations have been distinguished for each existence, viz.,
(i) total replacement, which signifies the end of a whole generation which is instantaneously replaced by a new generation;
(ii) total non-replacement, when there is absolutely no in-coming and out-going; and
(iii) a mixture of the two, with some coming in and others going out, till before the last one moves out and the last one moves in.
Of these, the first one does not apply to non-human beings so that they have two situations only. The remaining three existences have all the three situations each. As it has been said:
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