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218.
The Vāņavyantara gods of the lateral (middle) universe have innumerable cities and mansions. The number of vimānas of the Jyotiska gods is numerable times more than those of the Vāņavyantara gods.
COMPARATIVE NUMBERS OF FOUR TYPES OF GODS
219.
Vaimānika gods are few (numerable), the Bhavanavāsī and Vānavyantara gods are innumerable times more and the Jyotiska gods are numerable times more still.
NUMBERS OF VIMĀNAS OF VAIMĀNIKA GODDESSES
220.
In the Saudharma Kalpa the number of separate vimānas of the Vaimānika goddesses is six hundred thousand (600, 000), in the Iśānakalpa it is four hundred thousand (400, 000).
NUMBER OF VIMĀNAS, NATURE AND SOUND ETC OF
THE ANUTTARA GODS.
221. Five types of Anuttara gods are the best as per the
considerations of class, caste, and appearance. They enjoy incomparable pleasures.
222.
As the gods of the Anuttara-vimānas have the best of sight, sound, smell, touch and taste, the inanimate matter there, too, has the best of these qualities.
223. As the humming black bee enjoys sucking honey from the
best of buds, flowers and lotuses in bloom, so do the gods (and goddesses) of the Anuttara-vimānas enjoy the best of material pleasures.
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