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116. The word 'tinni' (all three) needs explanation. It has been stated that infernals with fluid body, who are innumerable and are always to be found in the first hell, take 27 forms. And so, it may seem, the subsequent consideration should have been restricted to the remaining two body types, viz., caloric and kärman, instead of stating ‘all three'. The reason for doing so is that the caloric body and the kärman body as such take 80 forms. Only when the fluid is added they take 27 forms.
117. The body of the infernal beings in the first hell has no bones, arteries or sinews. Matter of which it is made is unwholesome, and, by nature, it is such that when cut, it separates into two or more parts, which again may unite. The infernals with boneless body take 27 forms.
118. Infernal beings in the first hell take ash tinge and they take 27 forms.
119. The consideration is about outlook, of which three have been named. Those with right outlook and those with wrong outlook take 27 forms each ; those with mixed outlook, who are few, and who are sometimes found and sometimes not found, take 80 forms.
120. The consideration about knowledge names three types, with three corresponding types of non-knowledge or ignorance. Infernals who are already in possession of stability are born in the first hell with avadhi knowledge. Hence, as a rule, they possess mati, śruta and avadhi knowledge. Infernals who are with wrong outlook might previously have been beings with or without mind. Had they been with mind, in that case, as they arrive in the first hell, they have, from the genesis, avadhi ignorance too. In case they had no mind previously, at genesis in the first hell, they have only two ignorances, mati and śruta ; but after a while, they take avadhi ignorance. Hence it is said that these take sometimes two types of ignorance and sometimes three. Hence in the first hell, knowledge types are, as a rule, three, but ignorance types may be two or three.
