Apāya: The 4 ‘lower worlds’. are: the animal world, ghost world, demon-world, hell. See Vis.M XIII, 92f.

Asura: D emons, goblin, evil spirit or titan inhabiting one of the lower worlds apāya.

…68. Of these, the first 3 count as woeful courses duggati see: apāya the latter 2 as happy courses sugati.

…found in the 4 lower worlds apāya,, in which case the function of rebirth is exercised by the class of consciousness listed in Tab. I as No. 56….

…belongs to the sense-world see: loka is one of the 4 lower worlds see: apāya and one of the 3 woeful courses of existence see: gati