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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general survey of the animal world of which Viy. VIII 11, as we saw, gives a more complete description by referring to Pannav. 1, while the latter refers to the same pada in Pannav. (viz 50a and 55a). Probably, one might say, Viy. II 7 and III 10 only refer to those parts of the Deva-text that discuss the regions and the assemblies of the gods. Yet the Viy. also refers to several other parts of this text: see II 9 (on Samayakhetta), III 32 (on ebb and flow), V 23 and VI 83 (on the oceans), VI 53 (on the Logantiya gods), VIII 85 and IX 2 (on astral gods), X 5b (on astral goddesses), XIX 6 (on the continents and oceans); see also III 22.
Apart from the third paḍivatti there are only two places in Jiv. that have been referred to in the Viy., viz part of the second paḍivatti in XII 92 and the last section of the fifth paḍivatti (where the nioyas are treated) in XXV 53.
What about the padivattis of Jiv. that have not been referred to in the Viy.? Without entering into detail I may say that the interested reader of these texts will soon find out that they hardly bring anything but endless repetitions of subjects treated already elsewhere, esp. in Pannav. 1, and reclassifications of these subject-matters from special points of view.
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§ 12. I come to the Jambuddivapannatti, sixth Uvanga, which is a description of the central continent, Jambuddiva, subdivided into seven vakkhāras. 16 The Viy. only thrice refers to Jambudd. One of these references, however, viz IX 1, incorporates the whole of vakkhāras I-VI. The two other places, VI 73 and VII 64, refer to two related fragments of vakkhära II. Vakkhara VII, although it was not explicitly incorporated, contains several texts that appear also in the Viy.
a) It starts with a question on the moons and other celestial bodies illuminating Jambuddiva. This is one of the texts that were repeated in Div. and further developed there into a discussion of the celestial bodies above all the continents and oceans.17 Viy. IX 2, i.e. the text that follows on IX I into
16 Cf. Lehre par. 48,6.
17 Cf. KIRFEL, Zeitschrift für Indologie und Iranistik 3 (Leipzig 1924), p. 50 seqq.
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