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Viyahapannatti 19.4

English (machine translation) 19.4

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19.4.765

"Could it be, Venerable Sir, that inhabitants of hell have great karmic influx, great activity, great suffering, and great dissipation of karma?"
"Gautama! This meaning is not tenable."
"Could it be, Venerable Sir, that inhabitants of hell have great karmic influx, great activity, great suffering, and slight dissipation of karma?"
"Yes, they could."
"Could it be, Venerable Sir, that inhabitants of hell have great karmic influx, great activity, slight suffering, and great dissipation of karma?"
"Gautama! This meaning is not tenable."
"Could it be, Venerable Sir, that inhabitants of hell have great karmic influx, great activity, slight suffering, and slight dissipation of karma?"
"Gautama! This meaning is not tenable."
"Could it be, Venerable Sir, that inhabitants of hell have great karmic influx, slight activity, great suffering, and great dissipation of karma?"
"Gautama! This meaning is not tenable."
"Could it be, Venerable Sir, that inhabitants of hell have great karmic influx, slight activity, great suffering, and slight dissipation of karma?"
"Gautama! This meaning is not tenable."
"Could it be, Venerable Sir, that inhabitants of hell have great karmic influx, slight activity, slight suffering, and great dissipation of karma?"
"This meaning is not tenable."
"Could it be, Venerable Sir, that inhabitants of hell have great karmic influx, slight activity, slight suffering, and slight dissipation of karma?"
"This meaning is not tenable."
"Could it be, Venerable Sir, that inhabitants of hell have slight karmic influx, great activity, great suffering, and great dissipation of karma?"
"This meaning is not tenable."
"Could it be, Venerable Sir, that inhabitants of hell have slight karmic influx, great activity, great suffering, and slight dissipation of karma?"
"This meaning is not tenable."
"Could it be, Venerable Sir, that inhabitants of hell have slight karmic influx, great activity, slight suffering, and great dissipation of karma?"
"This meaning is not tenable."
"Could it be, Venerable Sir, that inhabitants of hell have slight karmic influx, great activity, slight suffering, and slight dissipation of karma?"
"This meaning is not tenable."
"Could it be, Venerable Sir, that inhabitants of hell have slight karmic influx, slight activity, great suffering, and great dissipation of karma?"
"This meaning is not tenable."
"Could it be, Venerable Sir, that inhabitants of hell have slight karmic influx, slight activity, great suffering, and slight dissipation of karma?"
"This meaning is not tenable."
"Could it be, Venerable Sir, that inhabitants of hell have slight karmic influx, slight activity, slight suffering, and great dissipation of karma?"
"This meaning is not tenable."
"Could it be, Venerable Sir, that inhabitants of hell have slight karmic influx, slight activity, slight suffering, and slight dissipation of karma?"
"This meaning is not tenable. These are the sixteen permutations."
"Could it be, Venerable Sir, that Asurakumāras have great karmic influx, great activity, great suffering, and great dissipation of karma?"
"This meaning is not tenable. In this way, the fourth permutation is to be stated, and the remaining fifteen permutations are to be rejected. Thus up to the Stanitakumāras."
"Could it be, Venerable Sir, that earth-bodied beings have great karmic influx, great activity, great suffering, and great dissipation of karma?"
"Yes, they could. Thus up to:"
"Could it be, Venerable Sir, that earth-bodied beings have slight karmic influx, slight activity, slight suffering, and slight dissipation of karma?"
"Yes, they could. Thus up to humans. The Vyantaras, Jyotiṣkas, and Vaimānikas are to be treated like the Asurakumāras."
"That is so, Venerable Sir! That is so, Venerable Sir!"

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