Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 1

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

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have observed the practices are born up to Graiveyakas. Those who knew all the pūrvas (fourteen) are born from Brahmaloka up to Sarvārthasiddha. Monks and laymen of good character are born in Saudharma at least.
Up to Aiśāna, the gods, Bhavanavāsins, etc., have physical marriage. For they have impure karma. Possessing strong affections, embracing in love like humans, they attain delight from pleasure of physical contact. The remainder have marriage of touch, sight, hearing, respectively, in successive pairs of heavens. In the four, Anata, etc., they have marriage of mind. In the other heavens, Graiveyaka, etc., the gods have no marriage, having the nature of infinite bliss more than the gods with marriage
With such divisions-lower, middle, and upper--is the universe. In its center is the trasanādi with a height of 14 rajjus, I rajju wide and thick at top and bottom. Within it are movable and immovable lives, and outside of it only immovable. The universe, 7 rajjus wide at the bottom, I rajju at the middle, 5 at Brahmaloka and i at the very top, with a well-supported appearance, was made by no one and is supported by no one.
It is self-produced, and moreover remains in the sky without support.
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