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is called Uttara Kuru, that in the South Deva Kuru, Bhoga Bhumi.
In 32 countries of Videha, and in the rest of the Continent there is Karma Bhumi or Work-Region, where people have to depend on agriculture etc. for their living. In Enjoyment Region, they have no work to do, they get all that they want from Kalpa Vrikshas, wishing-trees, never have disease or accidents, and live the full span of their lives. The least happiness of a man in Bhoga Bhumi is infinite times the happiness of a Chakravarti.
It is very significant that the islanders of Java have a word in their language denoting an Enjoyment-Land. Is it that the Jaina missionaries and colonists penetrated into these islands, centuries and centuries ago, and left the tradition of their Bhoga-Bhumi there? Kubhoga-Bhumi (Distorted or Improper
Enjoyment-Region). In the Lavana Ocean, round Jambudvípa, and in Kalodadhi round Dhatu ki Khanda, there are 96 islands; 48 in each, 24 on each shore of the Ocean. They are inhabited by ill formed persons (kumanushya) with disproportionate (hundaka) bodies. All of them have an age of one Palya. These people also do not have any agriculture etc. and live, some on mud and some on fruits. They have no Wishing-trees. As they have no arts of agriculture etc., they are called people of Bhoga Bhumi, but as their life is low and savage-like and their forms improper and distorted, the land is called Ku-Bhoga Bhúmi or wrong, distorted or improper Enjoyment-Land.
Paryápti (Developableness). The Chapter on Paryápti (Developableness) in Jainism is interesting, but not free from intricacy. It is dealt with in Jiva Kanda Chapter III Gathás 118-128; and is followed by an account of prána (Vitality) in Chapter IV (Gáthás) 129-133. Biologists and Zoologists alone can say if it is capable of being subjected to experiments. But the briefest Jaina account is this. The newly born soul is incomplete, but has the capacity to become complete, in assimilation, body, senses, respiration, speech, and mind. The comple: tion of the capacity to develop these 6 assimilation etc., makes the 6 Paryaptis. When a soul goes from one condition of existen another, it assimilates the molecules of áháraka matter, and also of speech matter in the case of more than one-sensed, and of mindmatter in the case of rational beings. The áháraka molecules form the physical body of human and sub-human beings, the fluid (Vaik
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