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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SAYA X
disi2 samvuda-aņagāre? āya’ddhis Sāmahatthi4 devi5 sabhā6 uttara-antara-dīvā7-34 dasamammi sayammi cottīsā.
1. Disi.
1 (492b) * a. East, west, south, north, up and down (resp. pāīņā, padīņā, dāhiņā, uīņā, uddhā, aho), the six main directions, are both animate and inanimate (sīvā ceva ajīvā ceva). b. In fact there are ten directions, viz east, south-east, south etc., zenith (uddhā) and nadir (aho); their proper names resp. are Indā, Aggei, famā, Nerai, Vārunā, Vāyavvā, Somā, Īsānī, Vimalā and Tamā. c. (493a) The directions of the cardinal points (disā) consist of living beings and parts and units of such as well as of lifeless entities and parts and units of such (e.g. Indā ... disā jīvā vi jīva-desā vi j.-paesā vi ajīvā vi ajīva-desā vi aj.-paesā vi). The living beings in question have one up to five senses or they have no senses (aņindiya, viz the kevalins, Abhay.). The lifeless entities are corporeal (rūvi), in which case they consist of aggregates, parts and units of such, and atoms, or they are incorporeal (arūvi), in which case they are of seven kinds, viz consisting of parts and units of the fundamental entities motion, rest and space, or consisting of time (addhā-samaya). The same is true for the intermediate directions (vidisā : south-east etc.) except that these cannot consist of complete living beings. The same is true for zenith and nadir, but in nadir (tamā, lit. darkness, i.e. absence of suns and other heavenly bodies that make measured time possible, Abhay.) time does not exist.
Cf. Pannav. I (see Introduction $ 10).-Indā Aggei etc.: reminiscence of a gāhā.--Abhay. explains that the intermediate directions cannot consist of complete jivas because they are eka-pradeśika, whereas jivas occupy & paesas (cf. VIII 10"): vidiśām eka-pradesikatvād eka-pradese ca jivānām avagāhābhā
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