Miscellaneous Topics – 2332
6. A barbarian.
7. Someone born in the womb of a female slave.
8. Someone with perpetual wrong belief.
9. Someone whose sex changes from male to female.
10. Someone who commits the five severest crimes of matricide, patricide,
killing of an Arahat, shedding the blood of a Buddha, and causing
schism of the Saṅgha.
11. A leper.
12. An animal smaller than a quail or a warbler.
13. An Asura called an ever-hungry Peta (
khuppipāsika-peta
), a Peta
burning with craving (
nijjhāma-taṇhika-peta
) and Kālakañcika.
An ever-hungry Peta (
khuppipāsika-peta
) is an ever-hungry ghost, for he
hardly has a chance to eat; a a Peta burning with craving (
nijjhāma-
taṇhika-peta
) is another one who is always feeling hot, for he is always on
fire. These are the Petas who in their previous lives were monks, the kind
that Ven. Moggallāna encountered on Mount Gijjhakūṭa.
Kālakañcika was the name of an Asura whose body was three miles
in size;
but as he is of scanty flesh and blood, his complexion is like the colour of a
withered leaf. His eyes, lying on his head, protrude like those of a lobster.
Since the mouth is the size of the eye of a needle, also lying on the head,
he has to bend forward to pick up the food, if he finds any at all.
14. In Avīci and Lokantarika.
Lokantarika is the space at the meeting of the three world-elements; it is
the space where evil doers suffer for their misdeeds; such a place of
intense suffering is called Lokantarika hell.
15. A Māra in a celestial abode of sensual pleasures.
16. A Non-percipient Brahma (
Asañña-satta-brahma
) and a Brahma of the
Pure Abodes (
Suddhāvāsa-brahma
).
17. In the Formless (
Arūpa-brahma
) abodes.
18. In another world-element.
Here the author gives a detailed explanation of “a quail or a warbler”
mentioned in the twelfth item of the above list. The author’s elucidations,