II. The
Anuttarasuras are the highest species of gods. They are divided into 5
classes: Vijaya, Vaijayanta, Jayanta, Aparajita, Sarvarthasiddha. They all
have true belief, are only on the 4th gunasthana and bind karman only
possible on that stage. In the 4 first classes are beings who at the
utmost are still only reincarnated twice, in the last one there are only
such beings who are reborn only once and then attain salvation (Tattv. VI,
27; Lp.27, ,638 seq.)
At the end I give a table
of bandha, udaya, satta of nama-ks. All that is here given must be
modified with regard to the exceptions mentioned in connection with the
different classes of gods.
Table of bandha of nama-k.
25a, 26, 29ab, 30b, 30c
Table of udaya of nama-k.
21f, 25f, 27f, 28kl,
29no, 30k
Table of satta of nama-k.
92, 88, 93, 89
THE INFERNAL STATE OF
EXISTENCE
The infernal beings (naraka)
are deformed, evil jivas, belonging to the 3rd sex, with a fine
transformation-body, who during their long life are tormented by heat,
cold, hunger, thirst and pain, and who with innate hatred are directing
all that they feel and think to tormenting one another. Like the gods,
they arise through "manifestation" (upapata), are, if undeveloped, only
karana-aparyaptas; their existence ends only when their ayus has expired;
the many wounds they receive are, therefore, never mortal.
cognition: mati-, sruta-,
avadhi-jnana (ajnana), caksur-, acaksur, avadhi-darsana.
activity : 4 vag-yogas ;
4 mano-yogas; vaikriya-, vaikriya-misra- and karmana-kaya-yoga.
lesyas : black, dark,
gray.
belief : unbelief,
sasvadana-samyaktva, mixed belief, belief.
conduct : avirati.
gunasthanas: 1--4.
The narakas inhabit the
numerous hells which exist in the 7 successively descending subterranean
regions, which comprise a varying number of stages. The names of these 7
bhumis are: 1. Ratnaprabha, 2. Sarkaraprabha, 3. Valukaprabha, 4.
Pankaprabha, 5. Dhumaprabha, 6. Tamahprabha, 7. Mahatamahprabha. The
deeper the storey of hell on which a being is existing, the larger is his
body, the more horrible his appearance, the more unsupportable are the
tortures it has to suffer. The hells of the first 3 regions are hot, those
of the 4th and 5th regions hot and cold, those of the last two, cold. The
lesya in the 1st and 2nd is gray, in the 3rd gray or dark, in the 4th
dark, in the 5th dark and black, in the 6th and 7th black; it corresponds
to the increasing sinfulness of the state of mind (tivratara-samklesadhyavasana)
of its possessor.
In Ratnaprabha gods of
the Asura-class can also arise. They are capable of reaching as far as
Valukaprabha, in order to torment the inhabitants of the 3 first bhumis
(comp. Lp. VIII, 4 et seq).
Infernal beings can only
be reincarnated as developed 5-sensed animals and as human beings. All do
not bind the following 19 karmans:
Celestial and infernal
state, anupurvi, ayus; transformation-body and limbs, fine, common,
immovable body, undeveloped, warm splendor, and 1-4-sensed class of
beings.
In the regions 4-7 the
tirthamkara-k is not bound, in the 7th in addition not human-ayus and, in
the 1st and 2nd gunasthanas, like-wise not human state of existence and
anupurvi as well as high family surroundings.
Table of bandha of nama-k.
29b, 29c, 30b, 30c
Table of udaya of nama-k.
21g, 25g, 27g, 28m, 29p
Table of satta of nama-k.
92, 89, 88
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