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The shortest duration of hell life is five hundred hell years, each day
of which equalling fifty years according to human reckoning.
Above the hells built around Meru, are four worlds of animals,
ghosts, demons and men. These four worlds rise the first heaven,
called the Heaven of the Four Great Kings or Maharajas. The four
kings are:
1) Dhritarashtra
2) Virudhaka
3) Virupaksha
4) Kubera
The first two heavens are built round the top of Meru; above
these two, rise twenty four heavens which have nothing for support
but float in space above Meru. These are self luminous regions, not
requiring the light of the Sun. The famous Tusita heaven where
Gautama Buddha resided as the Bodhisatva. The lowest six heavens
are known as Deva Lokas inhabited by them who are capable of
enjoying the pleasures of the senses. The remaining twenty heavens
are Dhy膩na Lokas and Arupa Lokas (formless worlds) reserved for
men of high order like the Buddhas.
Like the Hindus, the Buddhists too believe in world cycles called
Kalpas. But the Buddhist Kalpa appears to be much longer than Hindu.
There are only six possible Gatis or courses of life through which
beings have to pass. These are :
1) Hell dwellers 2) Pretas 3) Asuras 4) Animals, birds etc.
5) Humans 6) Celestials. Of these men and celestial constitute the
desirable forms of Gatis and others are considered undesirable.