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transferred, transfer their smell to the molecules at a further distance of nine yojans from them. Thus going higher and higher the molecules reach upto four hundred to five hundred yojans. But it is worthy of notice that the smell goes on lighter and lighter as they go up The smell of human world reaches upto five hundred yojans only if it is of extreme order. So in the scriptures two figures four hundred and five hundred are mentioned."
The view of Abhaydev Surı, commentator of Sthanang Sutra in this context is as under—“This version (400 to 500 yojans) simply refers to the foul nature of human world (and its environment, its atmosphere). In fact no god or any other living-being can know the smell of molecules from a distance of more than nine yojans. The capacity of sense-organs mentioned in the Agam is only with reference to sense-organs of Audarik Shareer (gross physical body).”
In Sthanang Sutra also the same four reasons have been mentioned for gods avoiding to come down to human world Further four reasons have been mentioned for inspiring gods to visit human world. They are
(1) The newly born gods, not attached to the enjoyments of godly world her thinks that he should bow to, greet and honour his worthy gurus (teachers-guides) whose lectures and blessings have helped him in having the divine grandeur (wealth).
(2) Some (newly born) gods, understanding that there is a great benefit of bowing to and serving the omniscient (mendicants possessing immense knowledge, Shramans obscuring austerities of highest order whom when one sees moving about in the human world, one comes to for showing obescience to them leaving the divine pleasures and enjoyments.
(3) Some gods come in order to create faith towards religion or to provide right (scriptural knowledge to their parents, son or other relatives of the previous life-span, leaving the divine pleasures and enjoyments of the heavenly world.
(4) Sometimes a person promises another person in the human world that whosoever, any one out of them, completes his present life-span earlier (dies earlier), he shall come to give true knowledge to the other. Keeping the word (if he becomes) god, he comes to the human world leaving his divine pleasures and enjoyments of the heavenly world (for sometime).
In Visheshavashyak Bhashya (verses 1875-1877, Sthanang, Sthan 4) five reasons have been mentioned for non-coming of gods to the human
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