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121. The word 'tinni' is used again to imply that they take 27 forms only when avadhi knowledge/ignorance goes with mati knowledge/ignorance and śruta knowledge/ignorance: in the absence of avadhi knowledge, they invariably take 80 forms.
122. All infernal beings in the first hell have all the three activities of body, mind and speech.
123. Upayoga is the capacity of the soul to feel, accept or enjoy, cognition in brief. Some of the infernal beings in the first hell are endowed with full cognition (sākāropayoga), while others are with very little of it, or are without it (anākāropayoga). According to some, knowledge is full cognition: vision is limited cognition. Both take 27 forms.
124. Consideration of all items about the first hell is to be repeated for the remaining six, the only exception being about tinges.
125. 'Padiloma' is the reversal of the order from 'anger, pride, attachment, greed' as in the case of the infernal beings into 'greed, attachment, pride, anger' for the Bhavanavāsis. While anger is the most dominant trait of the infernals, greed is the most dominant characteristic of the Bhavanavāsis.
126. Bhavanavasis differ from the dwellers of the infernal regions in their body structures as well as tinges. The Bhavanavāsis too take no bones in their body, which, however, is made of beautiful matter and has a well-measured shape. They take four tinges.
127. The word 'abhangaya' should mean a lack of uniformity or definiteness in form. Earth-bodies with red tinge take 80 forms, and the order is the same as in the case of the infernal beings, viz., anger, pride, attachment, greed. Other specialities of the earth-bodies are as follows. Earth-bodies take three body types, viz., gross, caloric and kärman. They are made of wholesome matter as also of unwholesome matter. But the overall body structure is ugly. The distinction between
