Viyahapannatti 18.5.736

18.5.736

do bhaṃte! asurakumārā egaṃsi asurakumārāvāsaṃsi asurakumāradevattāe uvavannā, tattha ṇaṃ ege asurakumāre deve pāsādīe darisaṇijje abhirūve paḍirūve, ege asurakumāre deve se ṇaṃ no pāsādīe no darisaṇijje no abhirūve no paḍirūve, se kaha-meyaṃ bhaṃte! evaṃ?
goyamā! asurakumārā devā duvihā pannattā, taṃ jahā–veuvviyasarīrā ya, aveuvviyasarīrā ya| tattha ṇaṃ je se veuvviyasarīre asurakumāre deve se ṇaṃ pāsādīe jāva paḍirūve| tattha ṇaṃ je se aveuvviyasarīre asurakumāre deve se ṇaṃ no pāsādīe jāva no paḍirūve|
se keṇaṭṭheṇaṃ bhaṃte! evaṃ vuccai–tattha ṇaṃ je se veuvviyasarīre taṃ ceva jāva no paḍirūve?
goyamā! se jahānāmae–iha manuyalogaṃsi duve purisā bhavaṃti–ege purise alaṃkiyavibhūsie, ege purise aṇalaṃkiyavibhūsie| eesi ṇaṃ goyamā! doṇhaṃ purisāṇaṃ kayare purise pāsādīe jāva paḍirūve, kayare purise no pāsādīe jāva no paḍirūve| je vā se purise alaṃkiyavibhūsie, je vā se purise aṇalaṃkiyavibhūsie?
bhagavaṃ! tattha ṇaṃ je se purise alaṃkiyavibhūsie se ṇaṃ purise pāsādīe jāva paḍirūve| tattha ṇaṃ je se purise aṇalaṃkiyavibhūsie se ṇaṃ purise no pāsādīe jāva no paḍirūve| se teṇaṭṭheṇaṃ jāva no paḍirūve|
do bhaṃte! nāgakumārā devā egaṃsi nāgakumārāvāsaṃsi? evaṃ ceva jāva thaṇiyakumārā| vāṇamaṃtara-jotisiya-vemāṇiyā evaṃ ceva|

"Venerable Sir, two Asurakumāras are reborn as Asurakumāra deities in the same Asurakumāra residence. There, one Asurakumāra deity is pleasing, lovely, handsome, and graceful; one Asurakumāra deity is not pleasing, not lovely, not handsome, and not graceful. How is this so, Venerable Sir?"
"Gautama, Asurakumāra deities are declared to be of two kinds, namely: those with transformational bodies and those without transformational bodies. There, the Asurakumāra deity who has a transformational body is pleasing down to graceful. There, the Asurakumāra deity who does not have a transformational body is not pleasing down to not graceful."
"For what reason, Venerable Sir, is it said—there, he who has a transformational body [is pleasing], and likewise down to is not graceful?"
"Gautama, just as, for example, here in the human world there are two men: one man is adorned and decorated, and one man is unadorned and undecorated. Of these two men, Gautama, which man is pleasing down to graceful, and which man is not pleasing down to not graceful? The man who is adorned and decorated, or the man who is unadorned and undecorated?"
"Venerable Sir, there, the man who is adorned and decorated is pleasing down to graceful; there, the man who is unadorned and undecorated is not pleasing down to not graceful."
"For that reason, Gautama, down to not graceful.
Two Nāgakumāra deities, Venerable Sir, in one Nāgakumāra residence? Exactly the same down to the Stanitakumāras. Vāṇamantaras, Jyotiṣkas, and Vaimānikas are exactly the same."