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Gods in Svarga.
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JAINA MYTHOLOGY Besides these there are lower demons called Vānavyantara, who are named respectively Anapanni, Pāņapanni, Isīvāyī, Bhútavāyi, Kandiye, Mahākandiye, Kohanda and Pahanga. All these live in the lower regions.
Then there are the gods of the upper regions. In Svarga there are two classes of gods, Fyotiși and Vimānavāsī.
Jyotişi gods inhabit Surya (the sun), Candra (the moon), Graha (the planets), Tārā (the stars) and Nakşatra (the constellations). The Jaina believe that there is a 'sun that moves and another that stands still, and that the same is the case with the moon, planets and stars, and that each of these has its own gods.
The class of Vimānavāsi has three divisions: first, the gods of Devaloka (Sudharmā, Iśāna, Sanatkumāra, Māhendra, Brahma, Lāntaka, Mahāśukra, Sahasāra, Āņata, Prāṇata, Araña and Acuya); then the gods in Graiveyika who rule over Bhadde, Subhadde, Sujāe, Sumāṇase, Priyadamsaņe, Sudaṁsaņe, Amohe, Supadibhadde and Jasodharc; and lastly in Anuttaravimāna there are five places, each with a god called Indra to rule over it, viz. : Vijaya, Vijayanta, Jayanta, Aparājita and Sarvārthasiddha.
As on earth (or rather as in India) there are sweepers who act as scavengers for men and live apart from them, so in the heavens there are gods who do menial service for the other gods and live apart from them. The name of these gods is Kilvişiyā, and they are practically the outcaste or sweeper gods. There are three divisions of them : those who live beneath the first and second Devaloka, those who live below the third, and those who dwell under the seventh; a little higher in the social scale come the servant gods—the Tiryak jāmbrik—who each live in a separate mountain in a different continent; and above these again are the Lokāntika gods, who are higher servants, and who live in the fifth Devaloka. Altogether there are in heaven and hell ninety-nine kinds of gods who are regarded as menial because they serve.
