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tions (ajjhavasāņa) are commendable (pasattha) and he earns an infinite number of rebirths in the four species.
24 (434b) His capacity to proclaim the lore (dhamma) and to ordain monks (pavvāvejja, mundāvejja) is limited, but he will attain liberation.
25 (435a) He may sojourn in different upper (Mount Veyaddha etc.), level (the kamma-bhūmis etc.) and lower (pāyāla etc.) regions of the earth.
a6 (435a) Within one samaya he may multiply himself into one up to ten [identical beings].
bl (437a) The same as al above, but with 'having heard' (soccā).
12 (437a) This leads to the positive ohi-knowledge which discerns (jānai pāsai) of an angula up to į parts of the nonworld that are as big as the world (asamkhejjāim aloe loyappamāna-mettāim khandāim).
b3 (437a) Physical and metaphysical description of this person; the differences with a3 above are: he may possess each of the six lessās and the three or four foremost knowledges, he may be sexless-in which case he has annihilated the sexual feeling (khīna-veyaya), not only suppressed it (no uvasanta-v.)-but he may also be a man, a woman or a human 'neuter'; he may be passionless scil. have annihilated his passions (khīņa-kasāi), not only have suppressed them (uvasanta-k.), or possess one up to all four of the passions in the lowest degree (samjalana).
b4 (437b) His capacity to proclaim the lore (dhamma) produces pupils and pupils' pupils (pasissa); all will attain liberation.
55 (438a) The same as as above.
H6 (438a) He may multiply himself into one up to 108 (atthasaya) [identical beings]. **
For the range of ohi-nāna see Lehre par. 78; 'verzehnfachen' (correct for vibhanga-nāņa in a6) must be corrected in accordance with be.
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