Notes on Modern Jainism

Author(s): Mrs Sinclair Stevenson
Publisher: Oxford

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JAINA DOCTRINE.
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The first hell, Ratna l'rabhā (?-1461 ), is paved with sharp stones; the second, Sarkura Prubhā (2182 2611), is paved with stones in the shape of sugar loaves; the third, Vālu Prabhā (que you, is paved with sand; the fourth, Panka Prabha (43 4941, is paved with mud; then follows Dhumra Prabha ( 4011), which is filled with smoke; the sixth, Tama Prabha (1144 4641 ), is absolutely dark; and in the seventh, Tamatumcı Prabhā (934774 46411, the blackness is even more intense.
The inhabitants of all these hells are tormented by wicked Deva and suffer hideous physical torments, being split open, pierced, cut into pieces, or burned ; water is offered to them, and when they try and assuage their thirst by drinking it, it turns into molten lead.
They suffer for a fixed period according to their Karma, and are then reborn as men or lower animals or, lowest of all, as some vegetable, perhaps a potato or even an onion !
The Jaina illustrate these divisions by the diagram of a man. His legs are Adholoka with the seven hells, our world, Tiryakaloka, is his waist, and above comes Urdhvaloka (@teals) or Svarga, his breast being Devaloka, his neck Greveyika and his face Anuttara Vimāna. His crown is Moksa.