Jain Journal 1997 04

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

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JAIN JOURNAL : Vol-XXXI, No. 4 April 1997
horse, chariot and driver (p. 1281b). After this the king will pass through the longest-enduring hell of the seventh earth, and then be re-born as a fish, and be caught and killed (p. 1283a). After having gone through the same circle of changes once more, he will then similarly, twice in succession, pass through the longest-enduring hell of the sixth earth (tamappabhā), and be re-born as a woman and killed (p. 1283b). Similarly he will go successively through the following phases of existence, undergoing each phase twice: an inhabitant of the longest hell of the fifth earth (dhūmappabha), a serpent; an inhabitant of the longest hell of the fourth earth (pankappabhā), a lion; an inhabitant of the longest hell of the third earth (bāluyappabha), a bird; an inhabitant of the longest hell of the second earth (sakkarappabha), a reptile (p. 1284b). At last he will pass through the longest-lasting hell of this (first) earth (rayanappabha), and then be re-born, at first, as a conscious being, and next as an unconscious being; and, being killed, he will then pass through another hell of this earth, in which he will have to remain through an asankhejja part of a paliovama period (p. 1284b). After that, he will be re-born and slain successively, for many hundreds of thousands of times, in all the various forms of birds, reptiles, quadrupeds, fishes, beings with four senses (e.g., the blind, dumb, etc.), beings with three senses, beings with two senses, trees, wind-things, fire-things, water-things, and earth-things (p. 1287a). After all this, having been twice re-born and slain, as a courtesan, in the town of Rayagiha, he will finally here, in Jambūdiva, in the Bharaha country, at the foot of the Vinjha Mountains, in the settlement of Vibhela, be re-born as the daughter of a brähman, and married in all form by her parents to a suitable husband, with whom she will live in great happiness. But one day, when returning pregnant from her father-in-law's house to that of her own family, she will be caught in a jungle fire and burnt to death (p. 1288a). He will then be re-born as one of the southern Aggikumära devas, and after that, as a man. In the latter existence he will exclusively devote himself to the acquisition of knowledge and the practice of asceticism (p. 1288b). After that he will similarly pass through successive existences as a southern Asurakumāra deva, a southern Nāgakumāra deva, a southern Vijjukumara deva, a southern Thaniyakumāra deva, and a Joïsiya deva, each of these existences being separated from the other by a human existence devoted to study and asceticism (p. 1289a). After that he will similarly pass through successive divine existences, alternating with human ones, in the world of Sohamma, Sanakkumāra, Bambha, Mahāsukka, Anaya and Arana, and finally in the grand abode of Savvatthasiddha (p. 1289b). Thence he will at last be re-born in the Great Videha country, as the son of a wealthy man, and will receive the name of Dadhapažnna, and pass through all the vicissitudes of