an10.89:15.1 “But sir, is it possible to give a simile?”
an10.89:15.2 “It’s possible,” said the Buddha.
an10.89:15.3 “Suppose there was a Kosalan load of twenty packs of sesame seed. And at the end of every hundred years someone would remove a single seed from it.
an10.89:15.4 By this means the Kosalan load of twenty packs of sesame seed would run out faster than a single lifetime in the Abbuda hell.
an10.89:15.5 Now, twenty lifetimes in the Abbuda hell equal one lifetime in the Nirabbuda hell.
an10.89:15.6 Twenty lifetimes in the Nirabbuda hell equal one lifetime in the Ababa hell.
an10.89:15.7 Twenty lifetimes in the Ababa hell equal one lifetime in the Aṭaṭa hell.
an10.89:15.8 Twenty lifetimes in the Aṭaṭa hell equal one lifetime in the Ahaha hell.
an10.89:15.9 Twenty lifetimes in the Ahaha hell equal one lifetime in the Yellow Lotus hell.
an10.89:15.10 Twenty lifetimes in the Yellow Lotus hell equal one lifetime in the Fragrant Water Lily hell.
an10.89:15.11 Twenty lifetimes in the Fragrant Water Lily hell equal one lifetime in the Blue Water Lily hell.
an10.89:15.12 Twenty lifetimes in the Blue Water Lily hell equal one lifetime in the White Lotus hell.
an10.89:15.13 Twenty lifetimes in the White Lotus hell equal one lifetime in the Pink Lotus hell.
an10.89:15.14 The mendicant Kokālika has been reborn in the Pink Lotus hell because of his resentment for Sāriputta and Moggallāna.”
an10.89:15.15 That is what the Buddha said.
an10.89:15.16 Then the Holy One, the Teacher, went on to say:


