Samyuttanikaya 22.8.5.79_3

22.8.5.79_3

Tattha kiñcāti kāraṇapucchā, kena kāraṇena rūpaṃ vadetha, kena kāraṇenetaṃ rūpaṃ nāmāti attho. Ruppatīti khoti ettha itīti kāraṇuddeso, yasmā ruppati, tasmā rūpanti vuccatīti attho. Ruppatīti kuppati ghaṭṭīyati pīḷīyati, bhijjatīti attho. Sītenapi ruppatītiādīsu sītena tāva ruppanaṃ lokantarikaniraye pākaṭaṃ. Tiṇṇaṃ tiṇṇañhi cakkavāḷānaṃ antare ekeko lokantarikanirayo nāma hoti aṭṭhayojanasahassappamāṇo. Yassa neva heṭṭhā pathavī atthi, na upari candimasūriyadīpamaṇiāloko, niccandhakāro. Tattha nibbattasattānaṃ tigāvuto attabhāvo hoti, te vagguliyo viya pabbatapāde dīghaputhulehi nakhehi laggitvā avaṃsirā olambanti. Yadā saṃsappantā aññamaññassa hatthapāsāgatā honti, atha ‘‘bhakkho no laddho’’ti? Maññamānā tattha byāvaṭā viparivattitvā lokasandhārake udake patanti, vāte paharantepi madhukaphalāni viya chijjitvā udake patanti, patitamattāva accantakhāre udake tattatele patitapiṭṭhapiṇḍi viya paṭapaṭāyamānā vilīyanti. Evaṃ sītena ruppanaṃ lokantarikaniraye pākaṭaṃ. Mahiṃsakaraṭṭhādīsupi himapātasītalesu padesesu etaṃ pākaṭameva. Tattha hi sattā sītena bhinnasarīrā jīvitakkhayampi pāpuṇanti.

Therein, 'and why' (kiñca) is an inquiry about the reason: for what reason do you call it form (rūpa); for what reason is this called form? Such is the meaning. 'Because it is deformed' (ruppatīti kho): here, 'because' (iti) indicates the reason; the meaning is: because it is deformed, therefore it is called form. 'It is deformed' means it is disturbed, struck, oppressed, broken; this is the meaning. In 'it is deformed by cold' and so forth, being deformed by cold is evident first of all in the Lokantarika hell. Between every three world-systems there is one Lokantarika hell, measuring eight thousand leagues across. Below it there is no earth, nor above it is there light from the moon, sun, lamps, or jewels; there is constant darkness. The beings reborn there have bodies three gāvutas in size; clinging with long, broad nails to the mountain slopes like bats, they hang upside down. When crawling along they come within reach of one another's hands, then, thinking 'We have found food!', they grapple with one another, turn over, and fall into the water that sustains the world; and when a wind strikes them, they snap off like the fruits of the madhuka tree and fall into the water. As soon as they have fallen into the extremely caustic water, they dissolve with a sizzling sound like a lump of dough dropped into boiling oil. Thus being deformed by cold is evident in the Lokantarika hell. In regions cold with snowfall, such as the country of Mahiṃsaka and others, this is evident indeed. For there beings' bodies are broken by the cold, and they even reach the end of life.