Pahāsa untranslated

Pahāsa. A niraya in which stage players are born after death. Tālapuṭa maintained that after death they were born among the Pahāsadevā. The Buddha contradicts this and says that their rebirth is in a Niraya and not in any Deva world (SN.iv.305f.; Thag­a.ii.156). Buddhaghosa explains (SN­a.iii.100) that Pahāsa is not a special Niraya but rather a section of Avīci, where beings suffer while wearing the form of singers or dancers.