Agam 05 Ang 05 Bhagvati Vyakhya Prajnapti Sutra

SR No.: 001628
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jozef Deleu
Publisher: DE Tempel Brugge
Publication Year: 1970
Total Pages: 372
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Agam, Canon, & agam_bhagwati
File Size: 19 MB

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2 (283a) To produce (viuvvittae) objects of some colour or other, of some shape or other, and to transform them (pariņāmettae) as to colour, smell, touch, weight, temperature and the property of adhering (niddha, lukkha), a god must attract particles of matter from without (bahirae poggale pariyāitta) belonging to his heavenly sphere (tattha-gaya).
Cf. VII 91.
3(283b) A god is able to discern (jāṇai pāsai) another god or a goddess of pure (visuddha) or impure (avisuddha) lessä only if he has a pure lessā himself and practises complete or at least partial (?) [veuvviya-]samugghāya (samohaenam appāṇenam, samohayasamohaenam a.). * *
According to Abhay. aviśuddha-lesyah means vibhanga-jñānaḥ.—samohaya probably is not samavahata (: upayukta, thus Abhay.) but samuddhata. The text expressly states that without samugghāya (asamohaenam) even a god who has a pure lessã cannot 'discern' another god. In the parallel text Jiv. 141b, however, the monk (aṇagāra) who has a pure lessă can 'discern' gods and other monks without samugghāya. Lehre par. 181 must be corrected in this
sense.
1 (284b) Not only in Rayagiha as the
annautthiyas say, but in the whole world nobody is able to show that he has produced (abhinivvaṭṭettä uvadamsittae) the least bit (seven similes: as much as the kernel of a Jujube fruit, kol'atthigamāyam avi etc.) of happiness or suffering. Likewise if a god should make the whole of Jambuddīva etc. fragrant (ghāṇapoggalehim phuda) by opening a box of perfume (savilevana gandha-samuggaga) nobody would be able to show the particles of smell.
10. ANNAUTTHI.
All perceptions (veyaṇā) are caused by karman and consequently cannot be produced in an artificial way. We met the expression abhinivvaṭṭettä uvadamsittae already in V 415.-For the simile of the god perfuming Jambuddiva cf. also Uvav. 136 seqq. and Pannav. 598b.
2 (285a) a1) A being (jiva) is animated (jiva) and what is animated is a being.-a2) A being of a certain species (HAMG
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