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TATTVĀRTHA SŪTRA
The Number of the Hellish Residing Places in Different Grounds :
There are 30 lacs hellish residing places in the first ground, 25 lacs in the second, 15 lacs in the third, 10 lacs in the fourth, 3 lacs in the fifth, one lac minus five in the sixth, just five in the seventh.
Question : What is meant by saying that hells are situated in the prastaras ?
Answer : In the space intervening in between two prastaras there are situated no hells; but within each prastara the entire thickness measuring 3000 yojanas has situated in it the hells of various shapes.
Question: What relation obtains between a hell and a hellish being ?
Answer : The hellish beings are a type of souls while hells are the place where these souls reside. It is precisely on account of their association with the residing place called hell that these souls are called hellish beings. 2.
The second ground is of a more inauspicious construction than the first, the third of a more inauspicious construction than the second, and so on till we find that the seventh ground is of the most inauspicious construction. Similarly, in the case of the hellish beings residing in these hells the leśyā or soul-colouring, the pariņāma or physical transformation, the body, the vedanā or tactile feeling, the vikriyā or self-wrought bodily transformation are increasingly more inauspicious.
Leśyā or Soul-colouring :
The kāpota or grey leśyā obtains in ratnaprabhā, the same obtains in sarkarāprabhā but it is comparatively more impure there, the grey and blue leśyās obtain in vālukāprabhā, the blue leśyā obtains in paņkaprabhā, the blue and black leśyās obtain in dhūmaprabhā, the black leśyā obtains in tamahprabhā and the same does in mahātamahprabhā but it is comparatively more impure in the latter.
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