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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the] small upper and nether layers (uvarima-hețțhillesu khuddăgapayaresu, cf. 5a below) situated in [top of] Rayanappabhā, in the very core (bahu-majjha-desa-bhāe) scil. in the centre of [the bottom-surface of] Mount Mandara. The ten directions start from this cube, ref. to X I.
patthada : see Lehre par. 108; Ruyaga : see ibid. par. 58 and Übersicht p. 43a seq.; khuddāga: see Lehre par. 21; payara 'bidimensional agglomeration of atoms': ibid. par. 60.
3b (606b) The ten directions (disā) start from this cube (ruyag'āīya, ruyaga-ppavaha). They all occupy space-units in the world and co space-units in the non-world. They all have a beginning and an end in the world, and a beginning but not an end in the non-world. A cardinal direction starts with two space-units (du-paes'āiya) to which at each further step two space-units are added (du-paes'uttara). In the world it is shaped like a drum (muraja), in the non-world like the seat of a carriage (sagad'uddhi). An intermediate direction starts with one spaceunit (ega-paes'āiya) to which at each further step another spaceunit is added without [sideward) increase (ega paesa-vitthinna anuttara). It is shaped like a broken string of pearls (chinnamuttāvalī). The upward and downward directions start with four space-units to which at each further step four space-units are added without (sideward] increase. They are shaped like quadrangular columns (ruyaga).
Cf. X 11 comm, and see the picture in Übersicht p. 43b.
4a (608) The five fundamental entities (atthi-kāya) constitute the universe (loga) [i.e. the world (loga) and the non-world (aloga)]. The effects of the fundamental entities on beings (jīva): [1] All the changing conditions (cala bhāva) of beings, viz all their mental, verbal and corporeal activities (mana-, vai- and kāya-joga) such as coming, going, speaking, opening the eyes [etc.], are effected by the fundamental entity motion (dhamma), the characteristic of which is mobility (gai-lakkhane nam dhamm'atthi-kāe). [2] All their fixed conditions (thira bh.) such as standing, sitting, lying (tuyattana) and the restriction of the inner sense to a single state of mind (? manassa ya egattībhāvakaraña) are effected by the fundamental entity rest (ahamma),
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