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less in a god who is seated higher; for a higher seated god, being more high-souled and disinterested, is less enamoured of the pleasure-seeking available in a foreign land. Thus the gods belonging to the heavens Sānatkumāra etc. whose minimum lifeduration is 2 sāgaropamas possess the capacity to move down to the seventh hell in the lower loka-portion and to move upto one asankhyāta thousand crores multiplied by crore in the transverse direction. But in the case of the gods with a higher minimum lifeduration the capacity to move is so much reduced that those belonging to the uppermost heavens are in a position to move down to the third hell at the most. Of course, even if possessed of a great capacity no god has ever gone nor will he ever go beyond the third hell in the lower loka-portion.
2. śarīra or Body :
The size of body is seven cubits in the first and second heavens, six cubits in the third and fourth, five cubits in the fifth and sixth, four cubits in the eighth, three cubits in ninth upto twelfth, two cubits in the nine graiveyakas, one cubit in the anuttaravimānas.
3. Parigraha or Appropriation :
32 lacs vimānas constitute parigraha or appropriation in the first heaven, 28 lacs in the second, 12 lacs in the third, 8 lacs in the fourth, 4 lacs in the fifth, 50,000 in the sixth, 40,000 in the seventh, 6000 in the eight, 700 in the ninth upto twelfth, 111 in the lower three graiveykas, 107 in the middle three, 100 in the upper three, just 5 in the anuttaras.
4. Abhimana or Arrogance :
Abhimāna or arrogance means ahankāra or self-conceit. Arrogance originates in respect of location, retinue, power, objectof-cognition, super-ordinary possession, life-duration etc. A higher seated god possesses less of arrogance thus understood because he suffers less from passion.
There are five further things related to gods which are not
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