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Fifthly, Némanaraté. Its inhabitants live 8,000 years. The husband 
converses only with his wife 2,304,000,000 times, by which means the race 
is perpetuated. ‘ 
Sixthly, Parané Métta Sawaté. The inhabitants here live 16,000 years. 
They approach their wives 920,000,000 times, and the interchange of glances 
is sufficient for the perpetuation of the species.* 
Sorasa Mana PrAma, or the remaining Sixteen Heavens. 
Seventh, Paranamétta wasa wat,teeno. 
Eighth, B,hrdma pari sach,ha. 
Ninth, B,hkrama Parohita. 
Tenth, Maha B hrama. 
Eleventh, Parétab ha. 
Twelfth, Appamanab,ha. 
Thirteenth, Adbhdsdra. 
Fourteenth, Partita Sub,ha. 
Fifteenth, Appamana Sub,ha, 
Sixteenth, Sub,ha Kinhaka. 
Seventeenth, Wehap,hala. 
Eighteenth, Awiha. 
Nineteenth, Attapa. 
Twentieth, Sut,hasa. 
Twenty-first, Suthassé. 
Twenty-second, Akantthaka. 
In this twenty-second and superior heaven is the Tra? Lék of the Siamese, 
and the Saha Lacds of the Hindus. The elliptical figure, here representing 
these regions, may remind us of the imagined spherical shape of Jupiter 
(from which issued a serpent), in the western mythology, and of the Divine 
Nature, which is without beginning or end: or it may recall to mind the 
Egyptian Cnuphis, whose temple was of an oval shape like that of Jaccrr- 
naTH. Or it may have reference to the famous mundane egg, or to the 
anciently-worshipped, or venerated serpent’s egg,t the ovum anguinum. 
* All these gradations seem only intended to shadow out the abstraction from earthly affec- 
tions and passions, supposed to accompany the gradual rise of the beings alluded to on the 
ladder to perfect virtue. 
+ Vide Maurice for these remarks. 
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