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Paṅka-kāṇḍa

पङ्ककाण्ड

The middle 84,000 yojana of the first earth: mud, and the mansions of the Asurakumāra and the Rākṣasa.

Beneath the jewelled layer lies the mud, eighty-four thousand yojana of it, the thickest of Ratnaprabhā's three layers.

Two classes live here that the layer above does not admit: the Asurakumāra among the Bhavanavāsī, and the Rākṣasa among the Vyantara. The Paramādhārmika, the Asurakumāra who torment the beings of the upper hells, set out from here.

Still no hell. The three layers are the whole reason the first earth is thicker than any other: two of them hold gods.

1 Ratnaprabhā30,00,000 hells · 13 storeys1,80,000 yojana thickasaṃkhyāta yojana · not to scale2 Śarkarāprabhā25,00,000 hells · 11 storeys1,32,000 yojana thick3 Vālukāprabhā15,00,000 hells · 9 storeys1,28,000 yojana thick4 Paṅkaprabhā10,00,000 hells · 7 storeys1,20,000 yojana thick5 Dhūmaprabhā3,00,000 hells · 5 storeys1,18,000 yojana thick6 Tamaḥprabhā99,995 hells · 3 storeys1,16,000 yojana thick7 Mahātamaḥprabhā5 hells · 1 storeys1,08,000 yojana thickKhara · 16,000 · Vyantara above, Bhavanavāsī belowPaṅka · 84,000 · Asurakumāra and RākṣasaAb-bahula · 80,000 · the first hells, in 13 storeys7,72,00,000 mansions of the Bhavanavāsīghanodadhi · dense water · 20,000ghanavāta · dense wind · 20,000tanuvāta · thin wind · 20,000you are heretrasanāḍī · 1 rajjuThe seven earths, in sectioneach earth broader than the one above — Tattvārtha 3.1drawn at equal height; the true thickness is printed on eachthe gaps between them are asaṃkhyāta and are not drawn to any scale84,00,000hells · 49 storeys
The seven earths, in section — Paṅka-kāṇḍa highlighted

Measurements and counts

Thickness84,000 yojana
Ofmud
Positionmiddle of Ratnaprabhā
Bhavanavāsīthe Asurakumāra
Vyantarathe Rākṣasa
Hellsnone

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समयं गोयम! मा पमायए

Do not be heedless, Gautama, for even a single samaya.

Uttarādhyayana Sūtra 10