Agam 05 Ang 05 Bhagvati Vyakhya Prajnapti Sutra Part 03

Author(s): K C Lalwani
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

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Bhagavati Sūtra -Bk. 7 Ch. 6
floating untidily, with brown and white hairs, covered with innumerable sinews, with uncouth shape detestable to the eyes, with contracted, curved and distorted limbs, dotted with many inauspicious marks, with few dilapidated, rotten and broken teeth like those of old folks, with a huge mouth as big as a jar, with terrible eyes, with a curved nose, with a curved and terrific mouth, with bad itches, with skin rendered uneven by sharp and deep wounds by nails, with ring worm, leucoderma and severe leprosy, with unsmooth skin, with peculiar limbs, with movement like that of a camel, with a bad shape, with unusual joints, with bones not duly set, with a bad formation, with a bad structure, with unusual formation and with swollen limbs. They will use bad cushions, take filthy food and will suffer from sundry diseases. They will be with irregular movement, lacking in enterprise, lacking in energy, with perverse endeavour, lacking in vigour, looking dirty because of the dust deposited on them by hot, cold, sharp and hard winds, with severe anger, pride, attachment and greed, suffering from unwholesome pain, mostly slipped off from pious thoughts and equanimity. They will be no more than one cubit in length. Their span of life will be around sixteen years, and in no case will it exceed twenty. They will have large family and they will be blind with affection for their family. They will be sheltered in the hollows and crevices on the beaches of the Ganga and the Sindhu and in mountain caves (to serve as seeds for the coming generations of men).
प्रश्न ९९ ते णं भंते ! मणुया किं आहारं आहारेहिंति ?
Q. 99. Bhante! What type of food will these human beings take ?
उत्तर ९९-गोयमा ! तेणं कालेणं तेणं समएणं गंगासिंधुओ महाणईओ रहपहवित्थराओ अक्खसोयप्पमाणमेत्तं जलं वोज्झिहिंति से वि य णं जले बहुमच्छकच्छभाइण्णे णो चेव णं आउबहुले भविस्सइ। तए णं ते मणुया सूरुग्गमणमु हुत्तं सि य सूरत्थमणमुत्तसि य बिलेहितो णिद्धाहिति णिद्धाइत्ता बिलेहितो मच्छकच्छभे थलाई गाहेहिंति गाहित्ता सियायवतत्तएहिं मच्छकच्छएहिं एक्कवीसं वाससहस्साई वित्तिं कप्पेमाणा विहरिस्संति ।