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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purao kade citthai) as long as that being is consuming (padisamveei) its present life.
4 (747a) Of two gods of the same class (Asurakumāras etc. specified) who live in the same abode (āvāsa) the one that is sinless and orthodox (cf. ? above) is successful in accomplishing his purposes of magical transformation (ujjuyam viuvvissāmii ujjuyam viuvvai) whereas the one that is sinful and heretical is not (ujj. v. vankam v.). * *
6. GULA.
1 (748a) A lump of sweetmeat (phāniya-gula) may be the object of practical and theoretical reflection (vāvahāriya-naya and nicchaiya [= naiscayika]-naya). In practical reflection one of its sensory properties, viz its sweetness (godda), prevails, whereas theoretical reflection distinguishes all five colours, the two smells, the five tastes and the eight tactile properties in it. This general rule is further illustrated with twenty examples showing all of the twenty sensory properties that can prevail in practical reflection: the black bee, the blue parrot's tail, red Indian madder (manjitthiyā) etc.
Besides the vāvahāriya-naya and the nicchaiya-n. probably the arranger of the text also had the ujju-sutta-naya in his mind when he made this text follow on XVIII 54 one of the key-words of which is ujjuya; SCHUBRING, Lehre par. 76.- phāniya-gula : drava-guda, godựa = gaulya : madhura, Abhay.
2 (748b) An atom (paramânupoggala) has one colour, one smell, one taste and two tactile properties. An aggregate of two atoms (dupaesiya khandha) has one or two colours, smells and tastes and two, three or four tactile properties, etc. Enumeration of the possibilities up to fine (suhuma-parinaya) and coarse (bādarap.) aggregates of an infinite number of atoms. * *
In this connection up to the fine aggregates only four tactile properties are considered, two of which are always found together in one atom, namely cold or warm united with rough or smooth. For the coarse aggregates however all eight tactile properties have to be considered.
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