Studies in the Bhagavati Sutra

Author(s): J C Sikdar
Publisher: Research Institute of Prakrit Jainology & Ahimsa Mujjaffarpur

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STUDIES IN THE BHAGAWATI SŪTRA
[Ch. VII
of gods and goddesses as the results of their meritorious acts in the previous births.
It is explained that the bondage of Ayuskarma (age-determining karma) of infernal beings caused by the result of a great amount of act of killing and possession, meat-eating, act of killing five-sensed beings and the rise of infernal ayuṣ-kārmaṇaśarīraprayoga-namakarma (the karmabandha caused by the action of the infernal kārmaṇaśarīra). While that of celestial ayuṣ-kārmaṇasarira-prayoga is effected by the act of self-control with attachment, i.e. self-control-cum-not-self-control, the unsaintly austerity (bala-tapakarma), the dissociation of karma with akāma (without internal self exertion) and the act of bearing the suffering or enduring from the unfulfilled desire, troubles like hunger, etc., and the rise of the celestial ayuṣkārmaṇa-śarīra-prayoga-nāmakarma.' Infernal beings'
The infernal beings are deformed evil beings of the third sex, having a fine transformation body. They suffer from various kinds of physical pains, such as, cold, hunger, thirst, etc., in hells, They who are consumed by passions and hatred, torment one another with hellish thought, feeling and action. They enter into this infernal state of existence through upapāta (manifestation) as a result of their karmas and this state comes to an end with the decay of their span of life.
The infernal beings are endowed with cognition-mati,śruta-avadhi-jñāna or ajñāna (as the case may be); intuitioncaksu-acaksudarsana; activities-4 mental, 4 vocal and vaikriya, vaikriya-miśra and kārmaṇa-kāya (physical) activities; conditions of soul-black, dark, blue and grey (lesyas), attitudes of mindperverted (mithyatva), mixed (mithyatva-samyaktva), right (samyaktva) attitude; and conduct (caritra) not self-discipline. They dwell in the numerous hells of the seven successive descending lower regions of the Universe, viz. Ratnaprabha upto Tamas-tamaḥ-prabhā.
1 BhS., 8, 9, 351.
Ib., 1, 5, 45; 5, 6, 209.
5.7 Ib, 1, 5, 46.
2 Ib., 15, 1, 470-71. 4 Ib, 1, 2, 21; 5, 9, 224. 8 Ib, 1, 5, 43.