Samavayangasuttam

SR No.: 006941
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Ashok Kumar Singh
Publisher: B L Institute of Indology
Publication Year: 2012
Total Pages: 498
Language: English, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_English & agam_samvayang
File Size: 9 MB

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Samavāya twenty-nine
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Some divinities' longevity, in the paradises Saudharma and iśāna, is expounded twenty-nine pit-similes. Some divinities' longevity, at least, in the [eighth] middle of the topmost three Graiveyaka paradises, is expounded twenty-nine ocean-similes. 29[3] जे देवा उवरिमहेट्ठिमगेवेजयविमाणेसु देवत्ताते उववण्णा तेसि णं देवाणं उक्कोसेणं एगूणतीसं सागरोवमाइं ठिती पण्णत्ता। ते णं देवा एगूणतीसाए अद्धमासेहिं आणमंति वा पाणमंति वा ऊससंति वा नीससंति वा। तेसि णं देवाणं एगूणतीसाए वाससहस्सेहिं आहारट्ठे समुप्पजति।
These gods' longevity, at the most, manifested in (seventh] lowest of the topmost three Graiveyaka paradises, is expounded twenty-nine ocean similes. These gods breathe in or breathe forth or exhale or inhale [once) in every twenty-nine fortnights and feel hunger after twenty nine thousand years. 29[4] संतेगतिया भवसिद्धिया जीवा जे एगूणतीसाए भवग्गहणेहिं सिज्झिस्संति जाव अंतं oriferi
Among the fit to be liberated ones, the few will liberate, up to will annihilate the entire miseries (free from the world cycle) in the [subsequent] twenty ninth re-births.
Notes A. In the commentaries Avacūrņi on Āvaśyaka Niryukti and Bșhadvštti on Uttarādhyayanasūtra the description of these twenty nine heretic scriptures is found, but in a diffferent manner?. Therein, the treaties on the first eight of Samavāyānga are each three-fold: sūtra, výtti and vārtika, making the total twenty-four, besides five i.e. gandharva(a kind of lore), drama, architecture (vāstu), medicine (āyurveda) and archery (dhanurveda). As noted above vrtti and vārtika are discriminated on account of their volume.
Sūtrakrtānga-enumerates sixty-four categories of pāpaśrutas. first eight from bhauma to vyañjana are identical.
1. vide Samvão, page 154-155, foot- note No. 1. 2. Sūtrakstānga Angsuttāņi vol.1, 2/2/18.