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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(samutpanne prayojane ye ganam kurvanti), a vassal (sāmanta).-As for 8.400.000 and 9.600.000 it may be noticed that the Jains often use multiples of 12 (rather than 84) 'where they only fail to give precise details for something founded on fact' (Lehre par. 16).---maggao : see VII 74 comm.-kidhina = kițhina : vamsa-mayas tāpasa-sambandhi bhajana-viseșah, Abhay.
3b (319b) Sakka helped Kūņiya because he had known him in one of his (Kūņiya's) former existences (puvva-samgaiya) [namely in Sakka's own former existence as the merchant Kārttika, Abhay.; see XVIII 2]. Camara did so because he had been acquainted with Kūņiya in an earlier period of the latter's present life (pariyāya-samgaiya) (namely in Camara's former existence as the ascetic Pūraņa, Abhay.; see III 21b).
3c (320a) Rumour has it that many of those who were killed in such wars were reborn among the gods. Against this Mv. informs Goy. of the following:
The layman Varuna Nāganattuya of Vesālī, having been ordered (āņatta) to participate in the War of the Chariot with the Mace (narrative clichés referring to 2-3a above), made a vow to fight only if he was attacked. In the battle he killed an enemy (cliché of the ‘equal enemy known from I 83) after having himself been mortally wounded by him (cliché of the archer known from V 64). Varuņa Nāgamattuya left the battle-field and died in solitude on a bed of darbha-grass after having pronounced the formula of worship and taken the monachal vows; ref. to II 16b.
A friend of the same age, who was also wounded, followed Varuna's example and died after having taken the layman's sīla-, anu- and gunavayas. In honour of Varuņa Nāgamattuya the Vāṇamantaras caused a fragrant rain to fall, seeing which people started the rumour mentioned at the beginning of the text.
One of the preparatives of Varuna Nāgamattuya's and his friend's death is sall'uddharana (along with aloyana-padikkamana), for which see Mahānis., chapter I.
3d (321b) Actually Varuņa Nāganattuya was reborn in the Sohamma heaven, his friend in a good family. Later on both will achieve salvation. **
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