pañca-vokāra-bhava

Pañca-vokāra-bhava: ‘five-group existence’, is a name for existence in the sense-sphere kāmāvacara or in the fine-material sphere rūpāvacara avacara since all the 5 groups of existence khandha are found there. In the immaterial sphere arūpāvacara see: avacara however, only the 4 mental groups are found, and in the world of unconscious beings asaññā - satta only the one materiality group. Cf eka-vokāra-bhava and catu - pañca - vokāra - bhāva further see: avacara - App.: vokāra.