Viyahapannatti 28.1.993

28.1.993

anaṃtarovavannagā ṇaṃ bhaṃte! neraiyā pāvaṃ kammaṃ kahiṃ samajjiṇiṃsu? kahiṃ samāyariṃsu?
goyamā! savve vi tāva tirikkhajoṇiesu hojjā, evaṃ ettha vi aṭṭha bhaṃgā| evaṃ anaṃtarovavannagāṇaṃ neraiyāīṇaṃ jassa jaṃ atthi lesādīyaṃ anāgārovaogapajjavasāṇaṃ taṃ savvaṃ eyāe bhayaṇāe bhāṇiyavvaṃ jāva vemāṇiyāṇaṃ, navaraṃ–anaṃtaresu je parihariyavvā te jahā baṃdhisae tahā ihaṃ pi| evaṃ nāṇāvaraṇijjeṇa vi daṃḍao| evaṃ jāva aṃtarāieṇaṃ niravasesaṃ| eso vi navadaṃḍagasaṃgahio uddesao bhāṇiyavvo| sevaṃ bhaṃte! sevaṃ bhaṃte! tti|

“Venerable Sir! Where did immediately reborn inhabitants of hell accumulate evil karma? Where did they perform it?”
“Gautama! All of them might have been in the animal-born [state]; thus here too there are eight alternatives. In this manner, for immediately reborn [beings], from inhabitants of hell onwards, whatever [attribute] belongs to whichever—beginning with lesyā up to formless application—all that should be stated according to this distribution up to the Vaimānikas; with the exception that those which are to be excluded among the immediately reborn should be excluded here as in the Śataka on Binding. In this manner, there is a series of twenty-four places with knowledge-obscuring [karma] as well. Thus completely up to obstructive [karma]. This uddeśaka also should be spoken as comprehending the nine series of twenty-four places. “Truly so, Venerable Sir! Truly so, Venerable Sir!”—[he said].