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SAYA VIII
poggala' āsīvisarukkhaž kiriya+ Ajīvaphāsuyam® adatte? padimīya8 bandhao ārāhanālo ya dasa atthamammi sae.
1. POGGALA.
1 (328a) * The transformation of particles of matter (pogg ala) is occasioned by a [karmic) impulse (paoga-pariņaya) or by a spontaneous development (vīsasā-pariņaya) or by a mixture of both (mīsasā- or mīsā-parinaya). The animate world (implicit ref. to part of Pannav. 1:23a-69b) results from the first (328b) and the third (332a) kinds of transformation: paoga-pariņayā ... poggalā ... eg'indiya-paoga-pariņayā etc.; mīsā-p. ... pogg. ... eg'indiya-mīsā-p. etc. Colour, smell, taste, touch and shape (samthāna) result from the second kind (332a): vīsasā-p. ... pogg. ... vanna-p. etc.; ref. to part of Pannav. 1:9b-17a.
2 (332b) In the same way a substance (davva) results from the three kinds of transformation (of poggalas]: paoga-pariņaya (332b), mīsā-p. (334b) and vīsasā-p. (334b).---The same topic (336a) applied to two, three, four etc. up to an infinite number of substances.--Calculation (340a) of the relative frequency of the possibilities. * *
2. Asivisa.
(3402) There are natural snakes (jāi- ā sīvis a) and metaphorical snakes (kamma-āsīvisa) [scil. beings whose actions (kamma : kriyā, namely curses and the like, Abhay.) are as disastrous as a snake's]. With their poison the four kinds of natural snakes (vicchuya (= vrścika], mandukka, uraga, maņussa)
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