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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garaniyā k.), [3] hostile (pāusiyā k.), [4] tormenting (pāriyāvaniyā k.) and [5] murderous action (pāņâivāiyā k.): a A man preparing a trap, piling up combustible grass or shooting an arrow commits the first three actions if his intention is directed to preparing the trap, piling up the grass or shooting the arrow; he also commits the fourth action if he intends to catch the game, to light a fire or to hit a living being; he commits the five actions if he intends to kill the game, burn the grass or kill the living being. " If a man kills a hunter who is taking aim at a deer, he has killed a man; if the arrow strikes the deer the hunter has killed it. He who is guilty of the five actions will die within six months, not he who is guilty of the first four actions only. d He who kills a man at his very side is guilty of the five actions.
kacchamsi vă etc.: cf. Sūy. II 2,8 and 10 (JACOBI, SBE XLV p. 458, n. 2); Āyāra II 3,3,2.-Several verbs (kajjamāņe kade etc.) illustrate the tenet of the identity of the action that is being performed and the completed action; see In
3 (94a) If two equally strong men fight, the one whose karman results in vīriya wins.
Probably we should read vīriya-bajjhāim (viriya-bāhyāni), not v.-v. (viryam vadhyam yeşām tāni, Abhay.); cf. vanna-bajjha in I 74.
4 (94b) Specification of all the beings depending on whether they are or are not endowed with will (savīriya, avīriya) as a faculty (laddhi-vīriya) and will as an active force (karaṇa-v.). * *
9. GURUYA.
1 (95a) Heaviness (garutta) and lightness (lahuyatta) of the soul as a result of committing resp. abstaining from the eighteen sins, viz (1-5] the breach of the five vows, [6-9] the four passions, [10) love (pejja), [11] hatred (dosa), [12] quarrelling (kalaha), [13] calumny (abbhakkhāņa), [14] backbiting (pesunna), [15] likes and dislikes (rai-arai), [16] blaming (para-parivāya), [17] cheating (māyā-mosa) and [18] heresy (miccha-damsaņasalla). The effects of the same on samsāra.
The notion heaviness has been developed from the notion lightness: as a result of its lightness the soul devoid of karman rises to the top of the world.