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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43 43. तेतालीसं कम्मविवागज्झयणा पण्णत्ता । पढम-चउत्थ-पंचमासु तीसु पुढवीसु तेतालीसं निरयावाससयसहस्सा पण्णत्ता । जंबुद्दीवस्स णं दीवस्स पुरत्थिमिल्लाओ चरिमंताओ गोथुभस्स णं आवासपव्वतस्स पुरत्थिमिल्ले चरिमंते एस णं तेयालीसं जोयणसहस्साई 'अबाहाए अंतरे पण्णत्ते। एवं चउद्दिसिं पि दओभासे संखे दयसीमे । महालियाए णं विमाणपविभत्तीए ततिए वग्गे तेतालीसं उद्देसणकाला पण्णत्ता ।
Forty-three chapters of Karmavipākasūtra are expounded. Forty three thousand infernal abodes [in aggregate] are expounded on the first (Gemlustre), fourth (Mud-lustre) and fifth (Smoke-lustre) earths. The uninterrupted stretch between the edges, eastern and western (respectively) of the continent of Jambudvipa and the dwelling (āvāsa) mountain Gostupa, is expounded forty three thousand yojana. Likewise, [to be described the distance] in four directions Dakabhāsa [in south], Sankha [in west], Dakasima (in north). Fortytwo lectures are expounded in the major Vimānapravibhakti's third section.
1. अबाहए जे० ला १ ॥
2. दगभागे मु० ॥
3. unfa Foll
Notes
A.
The commentator Abhayadevasuri attempted to explain this aphorism, relating Karmavipaka with Vipākasūtra. To him, if twenty chapters of the present edition (13th cent.) are added to the twenty three chapters of Sūtrakṛtānga, the number becomes forty-three. However, Abhayadevasüri has not offered any ground for this argument, making the explanation far from viable. The Samavāyāngasūtra has not mentioned Karmavipāka in the list of subjects treated in Sūtrakṛtāñga. According to Acārya Mahāprajña, this anomaly crept owing to the identification of Karmavipaka with Vipākasūtra. If Karmavipāka is accepted as an independent canon, now extinct, this problem is solved.
B.
Forty-three lacs hellish abodes: The aggregate of the hellish abodes in first, fourth and fifth earth (30+ 10+ 3) is forty-three lacs.
1. Samavão, p. 203.