淨名經關中釋抄 2.16
English (machine translation) 2.16
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2.16
In discussing emptiness, formation, abiding, and destruction, / Each has twenty increasing [and decreasing kalpas]. / When the kalpa is about to be destroyed, / During nineteen, sentient beings are destroyed; / Within only a single increase and decrease, / The receptacle world is smashed and destroyed. / The destruction begins with the sentient beings' abodes: / Those in Avīci die and are not reborn [there]; / Animals and hungry ghosts in the north, east, and west, / Next in the southern continent of Jambudvīpa, / Up to the Heaven of Delighting in Transformations— / This period spans nineteen all together. / Fearing the calamity, they commit no evil, / And so they have no thoughts of affectionate desire; / Sentient beings of the earth and space / All practice the second dhyāna absorption. / When sentient beings have been exhausted, / The sun's heat is four times normal; / When seven suns appear together, / The fire calamity blazes up intensely. / The retinue of Brahmā, then the ministers of Brahmā, / In fear are reborn in the second dhyāna; / The Brahmā King is born last of all— / That time is called the destruction of the kalpa. / After twelve [kalpas] of emptiness have passed, / Wind gradually arises within the realm; / When the kalpa of devas and humans is about to form, / Next thereafter a great wind arises, / Twice as broad, immeasurable in extent, / Sixteen hundred thousand yojanas thick; / Adamantine cannot destroy it— / This is named the wind that supports the realm. / From the Ābhāsvara [Heaven] down to the golden wheel, / Reaching throughout the three thousand realms, / Rain like axletrees fills this space; / The wind holds it and does not allow it to flow, / Eleven hundred thousand [yojanas] deep. (According to the Kośa, it is eleven hundred and twenty thousand deep.)
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