Early Monastic Buddhism v1.c8.s3.15

v1.c8.s3.15

(B) Khiḍḍāpadosikā.² This class of partial eternalists holds that the Nimmāṇarati, Paranimmita-vasavatti and such other gods,³ who are not given to excessive pleasure and enjoyment (khiḍḍā), exist eternally, while others do not. The reason assigned is similar to the previous one, viz., that some of these gods were reborn in the mortal world, where through meditation and other practices they remembered their former births up to the Khiḍḍāpadosika-deva stage and not further. This led them to hold the belief as above.