Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c36.4166

v2.c36.4166

Subhakiṇṇā, Subhakiṇhā.—A class of Brahmas who occupy the ninth Rūpa-world; a division of the Subha-devā.¹ Beings are born in that world as a result of developing the third jhāna, and their life span is sixty-four kappas.² They are filled and pervaded with happiness and are serenely blissful; they experience only sublime happiness, unlike the Ābhassarā, who exclaim in their joy.³ They agree both in body and in perceptive power.⁴ They radiate light from their bodies in a steady brightness and not in flashes.⁵ When the world is destroyed by water, the world of the Subhakiṇhas forms the limit to which the water rises.⁶