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4. Those, who are addicted to a Bala-tapa, Penances practised with ignorance, those who are very vehemently angry, those who are proud about their penances, and those who are intent on hostility, are born after death as ene Asura
kumāras.
5. Those, who while dying by strangulation at the neck with a cord, or by swallowing a poison, or by drowning in water, or entering a blazing fire or by the misery of thirst or hunger or by a precepitous falling down from the top of a big mountain, die with meritorious intentions, are born as Vyantara gods.
6. Hermits living in forests and partaking of green fruits and bulbs or roots, are born as gods upto fa Jyotişka dèva-loka,
3 Carakas, A class of wandering beggars who get food by violent means and aft Parivrājakas, A class of wandering mendicant ascetics, and a sannyasi who holds a particular stick, go as far as a Brahma-loka. Fully-developed five-sensed lower animals born from an uterus, go at the most upto Sahasrara deva-loka and a Jaina lay-man goes, at the most, upto Acyuta dèva-loka after death.
7. One with a false belief but carefully observing all the duties of an ascetic, is born at the most in the nine Graivèyaka deva-lokas, even if he has no faith in the syllable of the original sacred canons and their meanings.
8. Sutra, the Original Scripture is composed by i raskrs Gaṇadharas, chief disciples or apostles, as well as by a 2 y Pratyèka buddha-A great sage who is led to Salvation by fully knowing one thing only through his own intuition, er by a 3 ya Śruta kèvali, who has perfect knowledge of the scriptures or by a 4. Highly talented ascetic who is a thorough master of the ten complete pūrvas.
9. The Arihanta Tirthankara Bhagavan explains the meaning and the clever apostles compose the Sütras. There-after, the Sutras exist for the welfare of the world
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