The Doctrine of the Jainas, Described after the Old Sources c8.82

c8.82

All beings brought into existence by coagulation are, without exception, sexless (Jiv. II), and the same applies to the inhabitants of hell, whereas sexless gods do not occur. In correspondence with the sensuality decreasing in direct proportion to the height of the heavenly region, the Gevejja and Aṇuttara gods are short of female deities (see Pannav. 547b ff. and comp. Ṭhāṇ. 105b and T. 4, 8-10). In the dry account rendered by Jīv. 105b, 177a and 198a, we come across three queer similes which originally belong to a more highly styled text: the female sex is compared with a fire for cooking (*phumphuy*-aggi), the male with a forest-fire (*vaṇa-dav*’aggi), and the third kind with a city-fire (*mahānagara-dāha*).