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same sea there also rise the uppāya-parvaya of the Naga and Udahi princes, those of the remaining Bhavanavāsī rulers partly on the Aruna continent and partly elsewhere 1
§ 134 Before we come to the end of this chapter we shall deal with some classes which, though relating to space they stand near by the hitherto mentioned Vemāniya, are not included by them, and to do so we have to be somewhat circumstantial. Darkness is conceived as being of a material quality (tamu-kaya), and this matter is supposed to be an aggregate not of earth, but of water. In the centre world, 42,000 joy distant from the continent of Arunavara into the sea bearing the same name, darkness rises (Viy 267b, comp. also 246b) as a wall, which, hence, must be ring-shaped, having the thickness of a space unit (§ 58) and reaching up to 1,721 joy. Above this height its extension increases to fill the four nethermost heavens up to the Rittha region (s b) in the Bambhaloga. As far as it extends the darkness is so intense that even a god would like to escape Among its 13 names3 we find the one of Arunodaga The upper continuation of the darkness-matter is represented by the 8 Black Fields (kanha-rãi).5 They lie above Sanamkumara and Mahında in the Rittha region of the Bambhaloga, and there are two of them in every direction, an inner and an outer onc Furthermore that much is clear that in between there are intermediate sections of the same number That absolute darkness so characteristic of those regions does not reign there, but these sections contain the 8 abodes of the Logantıya gods (Than 61b, 432a, 452b; Viy. 267b: Ayar. II 15, V) They comprise Sarassaya and Aicca, 14 Vanhi and Varuna cach, 7 Gaddatoya and Tusiya each,"
I Dev 46 ff.
2 lao paccha tiriyam patittharamâne 2 callari or happe avarellanam (comp also Than 217a) uddham pija nam jāva Bambhaloe kappe Riffha-vimanapatthadam sampatte Viy 268a For the gods as originators of a tamu-kāja see Viy 634b
3 times names, Than. 217a
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Arunodaha-samudra-jala-vrhārattāl, Vy. 270 a.
Incorrect JACOBI SBE 22 195
Here the maruya deva, acc. to Sthan a group of the Log. Than 405b, 452b
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