• Roruva

1. Roruva. See Roruka (1).

2. Roruva. A Niraya. Beings were presumably born there as a result of

• casting aspersions on the Dhamma (S.i.30)
• miserliness (e.g., J.iii.299)
• adultery (J.vi.237)

Sometimes (J.v.266) two Roruvas are mentioned which the scholiast (J.v.271) explains as being Jálaroruva and Dhúmaroruva; in the first beings have red hot flames blown into their bodies, and in the second, noxious gases (kháradhúma).

Buddhaghosa says (SA.i.64) that Jálaroruva is another name for Avíci, and that the Niraya is so called because beings shout while being burnt there (aggimhi jalante punappunam ravanti).