Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 1

Author(s): Hemchandracharya, Helen M Johnson
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra

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are like slaves; and the Kilbiņas like the lowest castes. The Jyotişkas and Vyantaras do not have the Trāyastrinśas and Lokapas.
In Saudharma there are 32 lacs of palaces of the gods. In Aiśāna, Sanatkumāra, Māhendra, and Brahma there are 28, 12, 8, and 4 lacs respectively. There are 50,000 in Lāntaka, 40,000 in Sukra, 6,000 in Sahasrāra. In the pair (Anata and Prāṇata) 400, and 300 in Araña and Acyuta. In the first three Graiveyakas there are III, in the middle three 107, in the last three Graiveyakas there are 100 palaces. There are only 5 Anuttaravimāpas. So there is a total of 8,497,023 palaces of the gods.
In the four Anuttara-palaces, Vijaya, etc., the gods are reborn twice,'" but once in the fifth (Sarvärthasiddha). From Saudharmakalpa up to Sarvãrtha the gods become stronger in each successive heaven in respect to duration of life, brilliance, power, purity, soul-color, and happiness, in the sphere of the senses, and in clairvoyant knowledge. In respect to attachment to worldly objects and arrogance, body and marriage, they become weaker and weaker, successively. The gods who have the minimum term of life breathe at the end of 7 stokas, 445 and eat once in two days. The gods, whose life-term is a palyopama, breathe once a day and eat once in several days. The ones whose life is measured in sāgaras breathe at the end of as many half-months as there are sāgaras, and eat at the end of so many thousands of years. The gods usually have pleasant feelings, but if they have unpleasant, it would be only for an antarmuhūrta, not more than a muhurta.
Goddesses are born up to Aiśāna,"46 and marriage exists up to Acyuta. Ascetics are born up to the Jyotişkas. Birth of wandering monks is up to Brahmaloka, and rebirth of five-sensed creatures up to Sahasrāra. Laymen are born up to Acyuta; monks who have wrong belief but
444 781. I.e., before attaining mokşa. 145 785. I.e., about every 37 seconds. 446 789. 'Up to' is inclusive, throughout this description.