Viyahapannatti 18.5.736

18.5.736

"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."