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parīttābha (= Pali paritt°), m. pl. , of limited radiance , one (usually the 1st) of the classes of rūpāvacara gods of the 2d dhyānabhūmi; usually with deva , q.v. : LV 150.6 ; Mv ii.348.19 ; Mvy 3090 ; Dharmas 128 ; Divy 68.14 and 367.12 ( mss. in both parītā°); Mmk 43.21 ; Gv 249.14 ; Av i.5.2 , etc. Once, in Mv ii.163.17 , seems to be used otherwise, as adj. , but the expression is very strange, possibly corrupt; at the time of the Bodhisattvaʼs abhiniṣkramaṇa, the habitations of various gods became completely purified; at the end of the list, in 16, śuddhāvāsānāṃ (highest of rūpāvacara gods, and far higher than parīttābha gods) devānāṃ bhavanāni ( etc. ); then, in 17, evaṃ ca teṣu śuddhāvāseṣu deveṣu parīttābhānāṃ samyaksaṃbuddhānāṃ adhiṣṭhitāni caṅkramā niṣadyāni śayyāni tāni pi atīva pariśuddhāni abhūnsuḥ paryavadātā. I cannot explain the dwelling of Perfectly Enlightened Buddhas ‘of limited radiance’ among śuddhāvāsa gods.