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VI 10
specified) is a being (or: is animated, jiva) but a being (or: what is animated) need not be a being of that particular species.b") What is alive (jīvai) is a being (jīva) but a being need not be alive. [According to Abhay., for whom jīvati is prāṇān dhārayati, this is the case with Siddhas.]—62) Repetition of a’ with jīvai instead of jīve.—c) (285b) A being of a certain species (HAMG) may be capable of salvation (bhava-siddhīya) but not all the beings of that particular species must be.
3 (285b) Against annautthiyas who say that all beings (pāņā bhūyā jīvā sattā) only experience suffering (eganta-dukkham veyaņam veyanti) Mv. contends that H experience only suffering except once (āhacca) [namely, as Abhay. explains by quoting a half gāhā, when they are reborn), G experience only happiness (eganta-sāyam v. v.) except once [in the same case) and AM experience happiness and suffering alternately (vemāyāe v. v.).
Cf. VII 61. 4 (286a) To build their bodies (atta-māyāe) HAMG attract particles of matter that are within their range (āya-sarīrakhett'ogādha), not particles just beyond that range (anantara-kh.0.) or at a still greater distance (parampara-kh.-o.).
We read atta-māyāe = ātma-mātrāya or -mātrāyai (from mä 'to form build, make'), not—with Abhay.---atta-m-āyāe = ātmanā ādāya.
5 (286a) Repetition of V 413. At the end a gāhā summarizing VI 10. **
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