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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7. NERAIYA.
1 (84a) H (ner a i y a) AMG, as integral wholes, undergo the whole process of rebirth (savvenam savvam uvavajjai and uvvattai) except the attraction of matter (viz by nutrition) which they may also effect in parts (savvenam desam besides savvenam savvam āhārei).
Is the tikākāra quoted by Abhay. the author of the Avasyakacūrņi or
-ţikā ?--For uvavattai read uvvattai as in the preceding question. 2 (85b) The souls of HAMG reach their new places of origin by way of a straight or a deflected course (aviggaha-gai resp. viggaha-g.).
Cf. VII 14, XIV 13-2, XXXIV i 11-2; cf. also Lehre par. 95. 3 (86a) Out of shame and dislike gods that are reborn on a lower stage stop taking food for a while.
āhārijjamāạe āhārie pariņāmijjamāṇe pariņāmie (cf. I 14) according to Abhay. indicates the shortness of the time. In this connection ahāra means actual nutrition; āhāra 'attraction of matter', in fact is a law of nature and consequently inevitable.-aviukkantiyam (with Abhay.'s second explanation) is an adverb.-ahe: atha (Abhay. and PSM). 4 (866) On embryology:
a. The embryo (jive ... gabbham vakkamāne) possesses the senses in their conditional state (bhāv’indiya), not in their material state (davu'indiya). It possesses the fiery and the karmic bodies, not the earthly body and the bodies of transformation and transposition. Its first food consists of the menstrual blood of the mother (māu-oya) and the sperm of the father (piu-sukka). Later on (jīve ... gabbha-gae samāne) the food has great variety As there is no excretion, it all serves to build up the body and the sense-organs. Nutrition, transubstantiation and breathing are effected by the entire being (savvao : sarv’ātmanā, Abhay.). A [tube (nādī, Abhay.) called] māu-jīva-rasa-haraṇī, which is connected with the mother and 'touches' the child (putta-jīvam phudā), serves to transubstantiate the food while another stube called) putta-jīva-rasa-haraṇī running the other way round serves to build the body (cināi, uvacināi). Flesh, blood and brains
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