Dighanikaya 26.106

26.106

Icchāti mayhaṃ bhattaṃ dethāti evaṃ uppajjanakataṇhā. Anasananti na asanaṃ avipphārikabhāvo kāyālasiyaṃ, bhattaṃ bhuttānaṃ bhattasammadapaccayā nipajjitukāmatājanako kāyadubbalabhāvoti attho. Jarāti pākaṭajarā. Kukkuṭasampātikāti ekagāmassa chadanapiṭṭhato uppatitvā itaragāmassa chadanapiṭṭhe patanasaṅkhāto kukkuṭasampāto. Etāsu atthīti kukkuṭasampātikā. ‘‘Kukkuṭasampādikā’’tipi pāṭho, gāmantarato gāmantaraṃ kukkuṭānaṃ padasā gamanasaṅkhāto kukkuṭasampādo etāsu atthīti attho. Ubhayampetaṃ ghananivāsataṃyeva dīpeti. Avīci maññe phuṭo bhavissatīti avīcimahānirayo viya nirantarapūrito bhavissati.

"Desire" means the craving that arises thus: 'Give me food.' "Lack of appetite" means not eating, a lack of vibrancy, bodily sluggishness; the meaning is a state of bodily weakness that produces a desire to lie down on account of food-induced drowsiness in those who have eaten food. "Old age" means evident old age. "Within a cock's flight": a cock's flight, meaning flying up from the roof-ridge of one village and landing on the roof-ridge of another village, exists among these [villages]; hence "within a cock's flight." There is also the reading kukkuṭasampādikā, with the meaning: a cock's stride, meaning cocks traveling on foot from one village to the next, exists among them. Both of these indicate densely packed habitation. "It will be filled, I think, like Avīci" means it will be filled without interval, like the great hell Avīci.