[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Dictionary of Pali Proper Names](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937) › v1.c6.3284 # Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c6.3284 Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v1.c6.3284 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c6.3284](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c6.3284) Asaññasattā.—Inhabitants of the fifth of the nine abodes of beings (sattāvāsā). These beings are unconscious and experience nothing.¹ As soon as an idea occurs to them they fall from their state.² Brahmin ascetics, having practised continual meditation and attained to the fourth jhāna, seeing the disadvantages attached to thinking, try to do away with it altogether. Dying in this condition, they are reborn among the Asaññasattā, having form only, but neither sensations, ideas, predispositions nor consciousness. They last only as long as their power of jhāna; then an idea occurs to them and they die straightaway.³ - [Previous: v1.c6.3283](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c6.3283) - [Next: v1.c6.3285](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c6.3285) - [Up: v1.c6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c6) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c6.3284](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c6.3284) · Pramāṇa