Sambodhi 1990 Vol 17

SR No.: 520767
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: H C Bhayani
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1990
Total Pages: 151
Language: English, Sanskrit, Prakrit, Gujarati
Classification: Magazine, India_Sambodhi, & India
File Size: 6 MB

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IT. Idam Sati idam koti, idam asati idań na hoti. : 12. V.M. p. 372 (Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Publication, Bombay, 1940). 13. S.N., Vol. III, fol. kyā. 14. Mah. S. of D.N.. 15. Buddha says : “Man who are more in a worldly sphere, who hav
their lot cast and find their emjoyments in a worldly sphere, will fin this matter hard to grasp, the law of causality, the chain of cause and effects.” (Refer to M. V. I. page 120 of S. N.). Also see Mal S. of D. N.: "Iti kho Ananda nāmarupapancayā vinnānam, vinnānapancay ñama-rupam, ñama-rupapancayā phasso, phassapancayā vedanā, vedana pancayā tanhã tanhāpancayā upādānam, upādānapancayā bhav, bhavaparcayā jati, jātipanchaya jarāmaraṇam, jarāmaraṇapaņcayā soka
parideva-dukkhadomanassu pāyāsā samblavanti-Mah. S: point 3 16. This explanation cannot be found in the early Pali texts, bu
Buddhaghoşa məntions it in the Sumangalavilasini, Vol. II. on Mah. S 17. A.K. III. 20 : "Sa pratitya samutpādo dvādaśāngah trikāņdakah,
pūrvāparāntayordve dve madhyesgau paripūraņāh// 18. Verse No. 50. A quotation froin Nāgārjuna's Suhrllekha as translated
by Wenzel (P.T.S. 1886), from the Tibetan translation, quoted by : Dr. S. Dasgupta in his 'A history of Indian Philosophy 19. On p. 217 of "Ananjasappāya Suttānta of M.N., the Buddha says,
"If three things were not in the world, my disciples, the Perfect One, the holy supreme Buddha, would not appear in the world, the Law and Doctrine, which the Perfect One propounds, would not shine
in the world. What three things are they? Birtli, Old age and Death." 20. On P.X of 'Dialogues of the Buddha' (Vol. III). R. Davids comments:
"I have let vinnāna be rendered by 'cognition', or by 'consciousness'....." 21. R. C. io D. N. (Mahānidana Suttanta). Translated by R. Davids. on
pages 60-61 of Dialogues of the Buddha' Vol. III, Part II. (P. T. S.
London, 1950). 22. "My action is my possession, iny action is my inheritance, my action
is my womb which bears me. My action is the race to which I am akin, my action is my refuge" (A.N., Pancaka Nipäta). What appears to man to be his body, is in truth "the action of his past state, which then assuming a form, realized through his endeavour, he has become endowed with a tangible existence" (S. N. Vol. I. Fol. jhe). No man can escape the effect of his actions. Says Dha. "Not in the midst of the sea, not if thou hidest thyself away in the clefts of the