Viyahapannatti 1.1.25

1.1.25

jīve ṇaṃ bhaṃte! assaṃjae avirae appaḍihayapaccakkhāyapāvakamme io cue peccā deve siyā?
goyamā! atthegaie deve siyā, atthegaie no deve siyā|
se keṇaṭṭheṇaṃ bhaṃte! evaṃ vuccai–assaṃjae avirae appaḍihayapaccakkhāyapāvakammeva io cue peccā atthegaie deve siyā, atthegaie no deve siyā?
goyamā! je ime jīvā gāmāgara-nagara-nigama-rāyahāṇi-kheḍa-kabbaḍa-maḍaṃba-doṇamuha-paṭṭaṇā- sama-sannivesesu akāmataṇhāe, akāmachuhāe, akāmabaṃbhaceravāsenaṃ, akāmasītā-tava-daṃsamasaga aṇhāgaya-seya-jalla-mala-paṃka-paridāheṇaṃ appataraṃ vā bhujjataraṃ vā kālaṃ appāṇaṃ parikilesaṃti, parikilesittā kālamāse kālaṃ kiccā annayaresu su vāṇamaṃtaresu devalogesu devattāe uvavattāro bhavaṃti|
kerisā ṇaṃ bhaṃte! tesiṃ vāṇamaṃtarāṇaṃ devāṇaṃ devalogā pannattā?
goyamā! se jahānāmae ihaṃ asogavane i vā, sattavaṇṇavane i vā, caṃpayavane i vā, cūyavane i vā, tilagavane i vā, lauyavane i vā, naggohavane i vā, chattohavane i vā, asanavane i vā, saṇavane i vā, ayasivane i vā, kusuṃbhavane i vā, siddhatthavane i vā, baṃdhujīvagavane i vā, niccaṃ kusumiya-māiya-lavaiya-thavaiya-guluiya-gocchiya-jamaliya juvaliya-viṇamiya-paṇamiya-suvibhattapiṃḍimaṃjari- vaḍeṃsa-gadhare sirīe atīva-atīva uvasobhemāṇe-uvasobhemāṇe ciṭṭhai|
evāmeva tesiṃ vāṇamaṃtarāṇaṃ devāṇaṃ devalogā jahanneṇaṃ dasavāsasahassaṭṭhitīehiṃ, ukkoseṇaṃ paliovama-ṭṭhitīehiṃ, bahūhiṃ vāṇamaṃtarehiṃ devehiṃ ya devīhiṃ ya āiṇṇā vitikiṇṇā uvatthaḍā saṃthaḍā phuḍā avagāḍhagāḍhā sirīe atīva-atīva uvasobhemāṇā-uvasobhemāṇā ciṭṭhaṃti|
erisagā ṇaṃ goyamā! tesi vāṇamaṃtarāṇaṃ devāṇaṃ devalogā pannattā, se teṇaṭṭheṇaṃ goyamā! evaṃ vuccai–jīve ṇaṃ assaṃjae avirae appaḍihayapaccakkhāyapāvakamme io cue peccā atthegaie deve siyā|
sevaṃ bhaṃte! sevaṃ bhaṃte! tti bhagavaṃ goyame samaṇaṃ bhagavaṃ mahāvīraṃ vaṃdati namaṃsati, vaṃdittā namaṃsittā saṃjameṇaṃ tavasā appāṇaṃ bhāvemāṇe viharati|

"Venerable Sir, does a jīva who is unrestrained, unrenounced, and who has neither repelled nor renounced sinful actions, having departed from here, become a deva upon death?"
"Gautama, some become a deva, some do not become a deva."
"For what reason, Venerable Sir, is it said thus: 'A jīva who is unrestrained, unrenounced, and who has neither repelled nor renounced sinful actions, having departed from here, some become a deva upon death, some do not become a deva'?"
"Gautama, those jīvas who, in villages, mines, cities, commercial towns, royal capitals, isolated towns, small towns, isolated settlements, ports of land and water, ports of sea or river, hermitages, and settlements, mortify themselves for a shorter or longer time through involuntary thirst, involuntary hunger, involuntary living in celibacy, involuntary cold, heat, gnats, mosquitoes, unwashedness, sweat, dirt, filth, mud, and burning heat; having mortified themselves, passing away at the time of death, they are born as devas in one or another of the Vāṇavyantara devalokas."
"Of what kind, Venerable Sir, are the devalokas of those Vāṇavyantara devas declared to be?"
"Gautama, just as here an aśoka grove, or a saptaparṇa grove, or a campaka grove, or a mango grove, or a tilaka grove, or an alābū grove, or a banyan grove, or a chattogha grove, or an asana grove, or a hemp grove, or a flax grove, or a safflower grove, or a mustard grove, or a bandhujīvaka grove, always blooming, flowering, budding, clustering, branching, bunching, paired, twinned, bent down, deeply bowed, bearing crowns of well-proportioned compact blossoms, stands exceedingly and intensely adorned with splendor;
just so, the devalokas of those Vāṇavyantara devas, having a minimum lifespan duration of ten thousand years and a maximum lifespan duration of a palyopama, stand exceedingly and intensely adorned with splendor, crowded, permeated, covered, spread over, filled, and densely occupied by many Vāṇavyantara devas and devīs.
Such, Gautama, are the devalokas of those Vāṇavyantara devas declared to be. For that reason, Gautama, it is said thus: 'A jīva who is unrestrained, unrenounced, and who has neither repelled nor renounced sinful actions, having departed from here, some become a deva upon death.'"
"So it is, Venerable Sir! So it is, Venerable Sir!" Saying this, the venerable Gautama pays homage to and reveres the Śramaṇa, the Lord Mahāvīra, and having paid homage and revered him, abides cultivating himself through self-restraint and austerity.