Viyahapannatti 11.10.510

11.10.510

In Rājagṛha, up to he spoke thus: "How many kinds of world, Venerable Sir, have been expounded?"
"Gautama! The world has been expounded as fourfold, namely: the substance-world, the space-world, the time-world, and the state-world."
"How many kinds of space-world, Venerable Sir, have been expounded?"
"Gautama! It has been expounded as threefold, namely: the lower-world space-world, the middle-world space-world, and the upper-world space-world."
"How many kinds of lower-world space-world, Venerable Sir, have been expounded?"
"Gautama! It has been expounded as sevenfold, namely: the Ratnaprabhā-earth lower-world space-world, up to the seventh-lower-earth lower-world space-world."
"How many kinds of middle-world space-world, Venerable Sir, have been expounded?"
"Gautama! It has been expounded as innumerably manifold, namely: the Jambūdvīpa-island middle-world space-world, up to the Svayambhūramaṇa-ocean middle-world space-world."
"How many kinds of upper-world space-world, Venerable Sir, have been expounded?"
"Gautama! It has been expounded as fifteenfold, namely: the Saudharma-kalpa upper-world space-world, the Īśāna-, Sanatkumāra-, Māhendra-, Brahmaloka-, Lāntaka-, Mahāśukra-, Sahasrāra-, Ānata-, Prāṇata-, Āraṇa-, and Acyuta-kalpa upper-world space-world, the Graiveyaka-vimāna upper-world space-world, the Anuttara-vimāna upper-world space-world, and the Īṣatprāgbhārā-earth upper-world space-world."
"What shape, Venerable Sir, has the lower-world space-world been expounded to have?"
"Gautama! It has been expounded to have the shape of a trapu [a truncated cone or rampart-shaped basket]."
"What shape, Venerable Sir, has the middle-world space-world been expounded to have?"
"Gautama! It has been expounded to have the shape of a jhallarī [cymbal]."
"What shape, Venerable Sir, has the upper-world space-world been expounded to have?"
"Gautama! It has been expounded to have the shape of an upright mṛdaṅga drum."
"What shape, Venerable Sir, has the world been expounded to have?"
"Gautama! It has been expounded to have the shape of a supratiṣṭhaka [dish on a stand], namely: broad at the bottom, narrow in the middle, wide at the top; having the shape of a cross-legged sitting posture below, like a standing figure with hands on hips in the middle, and having the shape of an upright mṛdaṅga drum at the top.
And in that eternal world, broad below up to having the shape of an upright mṛdaṅga drum at the top, the arhat, the jina, the kevalin, possessing arisen knowledge and vision, knows and sees the jīvas, and knows and sees the non-jīvas; thereafter he is perfected, enlightened, liberated, completely extinguished, and puts an end to all suffering."
"What shape, Venerable Sir, has the non-world been expounded to have?"
"Gautama! It has been expounded to have the shape of a hollow sphere."
"In the lower-world space-world, Venerable Sir, are there 1. jīvas, 2. portions of jīvas, 3. spatial units of jīvas, 4. non-jīvas, 5. portions of non-jīvas, [or] 6. spatial units of non-jīvas?"
"Gautama! There are jīvas, portions of jīvas, spatial units of jīvas, non-jīvas, portions of non-jīvas, and spatial units of non-jīvas.
Those that are jīvas are necessarily one-sensed, two-sensed, three-sensed, four-sensed, five-sensed, [or] non-sensed [liberated].
Those that are portions of jīvas are necessarily portions of one-sensed beings, up to portions of non-sensed beings.
Those that are spatial units of jīvas are necessarily spatial units of one-sensed beings, spatial units of two-sensed beings, up to spatial units of non-sensed beings.
Those that are non-jīvas have been expounded as twofold, namely: corporeal non-jīvas and incorporeal non-jīvas.
Those that are corporeal non-jīvas have been expounded as fourfold, namely: aggregates, portions of aggregates, spatial units of aggregates, and ultimate atoms of pudgala.
Those that are incorporeal non-jīvas have been expounded as sevenfold, namely: 1. not-dharmāstikāya, [being] a portion of dharmāstikāya; 2. spatial units of dharmāstikāya; 3. not-adharmāstikāya, [being] a portion of adharmāstikāya; 4. spatial units of adharmāstikāya; 5. not-ākāśāstikāya, [being] a portion of ākāśāstikāya; 6. spatial units of ākāśāstikāya; 7. time-instants."
"In the middle-world space-world, Venerable Sir, are there jīvas, portions of jīvas, spatial units of jīvas?"
"Just the same. So also in the upper-world space-world, with this difference: the incorporeal are sixfold, time-instants do not exist."
"In the world, Venerable Sir, are there jīvas, portions of jīvas, spatial units of jīvas?"
"As in the second śataka, in the Asti-uddeśaka, for lokākāśa, with this difference: the incorporeal non-jīvas have been expounded as sevenfold, namely: dharmāstikāya [itself], not a portion of dharmāstikāya, spatial units of dharmāstikāya; adharmāstikāya [itself], not a portion of adharmāstikāya, spatial units of adharmāstikāya; not-ākāśāstikāya, [being] a portion of ākāśāstikāya, spatial units of ākāśāstikāya; time-instants; the rest is just the same."
"In the non-world, Venerable Sir, are there jīvas, portions of jīvas, spatial units of jīvas?"
"Thus as in the Astikāya-uddeśaka for alokākāśa, exactly so without omission, up to less by an infinite fraction of the whole of space."
"In one spatial unit of space of the lower-world space-world, Venerable Sir, are there 1. jīvas, 2. portions of jīvas, 3. spatial units of jīvas, 4. non-jīvas, 5. portions of non-jīvas, [or] 6. spatial units of non-jīvas?"
"Gautama! There are no [whole] jīvas, [but] there are portions of jīvas, spatial units of jīvas, non-jīvas, portions of non-jīvas, and spatial units of non-jīvas.
Those that are portions of jīvas are necessarily 1. portions of one-sensed beings; 2. or portions of one-sensed beings and a portion of a two-sensed being; 3. or portions of one-sensed beings and portions of two-sensed beings. Thus, omitting the middle alternative, up to: or portions of one-sensed beings and portions of non-sensed beings.
Those that are spatial units of jīvas are necessarily 1. spatial units of one-sensed beings; 2. or spatial units of one-sensed beings and spatial units of a two-sensed being; 3. or spatial units of one-sensed beings and spatial units of two-sensed beings; thus, omitting the first alternative, up to the five-sensed; among the non-sensed, there is a triplet of alternatives.
Those that are non-jīvas have been expounded as twofold, namely: corporeal non-jīvas and incorporeal non-jīvas. The corporeal are just as before. Those that are incorporeal non-jīvas have been expounded as fivefold, namely: not-dharmāstikāya, [being] a portion of dharmāstikāya; a spatial unit of dharmāstikāya; not-adharmāstikāya, [being] a portion of adharmāstikāya; a spatial unit of adharmāstikāya; and time-instants."
"In one spatial unit of space of the middle-world space-world, Venerable Sir, are there jīvas...?"
"Just as for the lower-world space-world, exactly so. So also for the upper-world space-world, with this difference: time-instants do not exist; the incorporeal are fourfold."
"In one spatial unit of space of the world, Venerable Sir, are there jīvas...?"
"As in one spatial unit of space of the lower-world space-world."
"In one spatial unit of space of the non-world, Venerable Sir—question."
"Gautama! There are no jīvas, no portions of jīvas, no spatial units of jīvas; no [whole] non-jīvas, no portions of non-jīvas, no spatial units of non-jīvas; there is one portion of a non-jīva substance, neither-heavy-nor-light, endowed with infinite neither-heavy-nor-light attributes, less by an infinite fraction of the whole of space."
"Substance-wise, in the lower-world space-world there are infinite jīva substances, infinite non-jīva substances, infinite jīva-and-non-jīva substances. So also in the middle-world space-world; so also in the upper-world space-world; so also in the world.
Substance-wise, in the non-world there are no jīva substances at all, no non-jīva substances at all, no jīva-and-non-jīva substances at all; there is one portion of a non-jīva substance, neither-heavy-nor-light, endowed with infinite neither-heavy-nor-light attributes, less by an infinite fraction of the whole of space."
"Time-wise, the lower-world space-world never was not, never is not, and never will not be; it has been, it is, and it will be; it is steady, fixed, eternal, imperishable, undecaying, permanent, and constant. So also the middle-world space-world; so also the upper-world space-world; so also the world; so also the non-world."
"State-wise, in the lower-world space-world there are infinite color-modifications, infinite smell-modifications, infinite taste-modifications, infinite touch-modifications, infinite shape-modifications, infinite heavy-and-light-modifications, and infinite neither-heavy-nor-light-modifications. So also in the middle-world space-world; so also in the upper-world space-world; so also in the world.
State-wise, in the non-world there are no color-modifications at all, no smell-modifications at all, no taste-modifications at all, no touch-modifications at all, no shape-modifications at all, no heavy-and-light-modifications at all; there is one portion of a non-jīva substance, neither-heavy-nor-light, endowed with infinite neither-heavy-nor-light attributes, less by an infinite fraction of the whole of space."