Abhidharmadipa with Vibhasaprabha Vrutti

SR No.: 004384
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: P S Jaini
Publisher: Kashi Prasad Jayaswal Research Institute
Publication Year: 1977
Total Pages: 660
Language: Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 12 MB

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63 Sautrantika and Abhidharmlka contents of the navanga preaching. In short the attha and dhamma stand for the Four Truths and also for the meanings and contents of the Scriptures. This latter meaning is completely dropped in the Ab. of this topic. Here the first three meanings alone are repeated and demonstrated by aplying these terms to the mental concomitants of a given state of consciousness. While employing the formula of patisambhidas to represent the doctrine of Truths, the Ab. completely leaves out the more conventional, and perhaps the original, meaning of the dhamma and attha, viz., the Scriptures and their meanings. In the Ang. nikaya, in one place, Sariputta claims that he has mastered the four patisambhidas even when he was ordained only a fortnight, and that he explains it in various ways. Although the terms at tha and dhamma are not explained here, they appear more likely to refer to the expounding of Scriptures than to the doctrine of Four Truths. : This conjecture is strengthened by his demonstration of the patisambhidas in the Patisambhida-magga. In a chapter dealing exclusively with this topic, s the Dhammachakkappavattana-sutta is fully quoted, followed by an application of the four kinds of patisambhidas. A sentence like the following is selected : "idam dukkhan ariva-sachchanti pubbe ananussutesu dhammesu chakkhus udapadi, nanan........, panna ......, vijja...... aloko udapadi". This is followed by explanations of the terms chakkhu, nana, etc., e.g., chakkhus udapaditi dassanatthena. It is then explained that the chakkhu, nana, panna, vijja and aloka are dhammas; they are the objects of the dhamm-patisambhida. The dassanattha, nanattha, pajananattha, pativedhattha, obhasatthathese are atthas and are objects of the attha-patisambhida. The five dhammas and the five atthas become the object of nirutti; knowledge of these ten derivations is nirutti-patisambhida. Knowledge of the five dhammas, five atthas, and ten niruttis make twenty patibhana-patisambhidas. 1 Ibid. 2 Ang. II, p. 160. 3 Vol. II. pp. 147-158 (Patisambhida-katha).