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DEVENDRASTAVA: 67
O' Beauteous one! all of them (gods and goddesses of the Anuttara-vimāna heavens) are as fair as the best of lotuses, they are born in the same heavens (according to their classes) and they experience the pleasure of liberation on coming out of those heavens (i.e. they liberate in the births next to theirs).
THE FOOD AND RESPIRATION OF THE GODS
O' Pretty one! the gods of the Anuttara-vimāna heavens feel like having food once in every thirty-three thousand years.
The gods with medium life-spans have food once in every sixteen thousand and five hundred years.
The gods with life-spans of ten thousand years have food every alternate day.
O' Beauteous one! the gods of the Anuttara-vimāna heavens respirate once in every year and four and a half months.
O' Beauteous bodied one! the gods with medium lifespans respirate once in every eight months and seven and a a half days.
O' Moon-faced one! the gods with the minimum lifespans respirate once in every seven stokas (a measure of time not current now).
The gods respirate one in as many fortnights as their lifespans in Sāgaropama years and they feel like having food once in as many thousand years.
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