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TATTVĀRTHA SUTRA: THE HEAVENS : 57
• Uparyupari || 19 || • Saudharmaišāna-Sanatkumara-Māhendra-Brahma
loka-Lāntaka-Mahāśukra-Sahasrāresvānata-Pranata yorāranācyutayornavasu-Graiveyakesu Vijaya-Vaijayanta-Jayanta-Aparäjitesu Sarvārtha siddhe ca ||20||
They are located one above the other. They (the Vaimānika gods)
live in twelve heavens of the Kalpa category called Saudharma, Aiśāna, Sanatkumāra, Mahendra, Brahmaloka, Lāntaka, Mahāśukra, Sahasrāra, Anata, Pränata, hrana, and Acyuta and fourteen of the Kalpātīta or beyond the Kalpa category, that include nine Graiveyakas, Vijaya, Vaijayanta, Jayanta, Aparājita, and Sarvā rthasiddha. (17–20)
(The Digambara tradition believes in sixteen Kalpa-heavens as
compared to twelve believed by the svetāmbaras. Other four are - Brahmottara, Kāpistha, Sukra and Satāra. They come at the sixth, eighth, ninth and the eleventh positions respectively.)
Inequality Of Gods - • Sthitiprabhāvasukhadyutileśyāviśuddhindriyāvadhi
visayato dhikāḥ || 21 || • Gatiśarīraparigrahābhimānato hīnāḥ || 22 || The gods of relatively higher heavens have correspondingly
superior life-spans, influence, pleasure, glow or radiance, purity of hues, objects of sensory cognition and those of clairvoyant cognition, but correspondingly lesser speed, bodies, wants and pride. (21-22)
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