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Bhagavati Sūtra
Vonna-hue. Infernal beings take a deep black hue or hue with a dark tinge, and all of them have a dreadful shape of body.
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Gandha-smell of their body. It is similar to that of a rotten animal carcass. In fact, nothing in the infernal beings is graceful or attractive.
Phasa-touch. The touch of the body of the infernal beings is like that of a sharp weapon, or like the bite of a scorpion, or the touch of fire.
20. All beings that have been called prāṇa, bhūta, jīva and satta have, before attaining these forms, lived many times or innumerable times in the hellish worlds.
21. The following Sūtra is relevant for the purpose:
sanṭhāṇam bahallam pohattam kaipaesa ogāḍhe appābahu puttha-paviṭṭha visaya aṇagāra ähäre
On structure (shape), the ear is like the kadamba flower, the eye like a masur seed or the moon, the nose like atimuktaka flower, the tongue like the rajor, and the
organ of touch of
diverse shape.
On thickness, it is an innumerable fraction of the thickness of the finger.
On length, the organs of audition, vision and smell have a length which is an innumerable fraction of the thickness of the finger, the tongue has a length equal to 2 to 9 fingers, and the organ of touch has a length as much as the size of the body. All the five are made of innumerable space-units.
The organ of vision has the shortest socket; numerable times more than this is the socket of the organ of smell; numerable times more than the second is the socket of the organ of audition; numerable times more than the third is the socket of the organ of taste; numerable times more than the fourth is the socket of the organ of touch. All the organs, except the organ of vision, have direct contact with the object which they touch
