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they wander for a samkhyeya period undergoing births and deaths full of sharp pain. In this way the souls engaged in injury to life wander in the dreadful Samsára for an infinite time. Those who returning from hell, somehow or other attain man. bood are also unfortunate as they are often found deformed in appearance, hump-backed, bent-bodied, low statured, deaf, one-eyed, deformed-handed, crippled, mutilated, dumb, stammering, blind, and inflicted with diseases and sicknesses. Thus the sinners wandering in hells, among lower creatures and among men suffer infinite pains.
8. This is the result of injury to life. It extends to both this and the next world. It has little pleasure but much pain. It is unpleasant and is borne in hundreds of years. There is no release from it, but by suffering it. So has been said by the Jina, descendent of the Náya dynasty, great in soul and having the excellent name of Víra. He has desoribed the retributive development of injury to life.
(First door of the Panhávágarana sutta.)
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