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chastity (bambhacera-vāsam āvasejjā), e. be self-disciplined (samjamenam samjamejjā), f. practise the repelling (of karmic influx] (samvarenam samvarejjā) and g. obtain the five kinds of knowledge (ābhiņibohiya-nānam etc. uppādejjā), if one has partly annihilated and partly suppressed (khaôvasame kade) the karmans that a. cloud knowledge, b. cloud belief, c. obstruct religion (dhamm'antarāiya kamma), and cloud d. conduct, e. zeal (jayan'āvaranijja kamma), f. the occupations (ajjhavasān’āv. k.) and g. the five kinds of knowledge, resp. To obtain the kevalaknowledge, however, the karman that clouds it must have been annihilated (khae kade).
asoccā : yathă pratyekabuddh'ādih, Abhay.--jayaņă = yatana : cūritravišeşa-visaya-vīrya, Abhay.
a2 (433a) This particular way of acquiring knowledge etc. may lead to the negative ohi-knowledge (vibhange nāmam annāne, also vibhanga-nāņa) which is brought about if certain ascetical practices and good qualities (see comm.) go together with the khaôvasama-condition of the karmans that cloud it (scil. the vibhanga-nāna, Abhay.) and with mental efforts (īhā'pohamaggaņa-gavesana). This vibhanga-nāņa discerns (jāņai pāsai) Į of an angula at least and į thousands of yojanas at the most. If orthodoxy (sammatta) enters, it may turn into positive ohiknowledge.
For the ascetical practices see II 16h; the good qualities are the same as those ascribed to Roha in I 64 with the exception of pagai-mauya and p.viniya.--Examples of people first acquiring vibhanga-nāna and converted to orthodoxy later on will be discussed in XI ,' and 12%.
a3 (434a) Physical and metaphysical description of the person in question: he possesses one of the three bright (visuddha) lessās and the three foremost knowledges, he is active (sajogi) with mind, word and body, may have the faculty of concrete or abstract imagination (sāgārövautta, anāgāróvautta), possesses the best joining of bones (vairósabha-nārāya-samghayana), may possess each of the six shapes of the body (samthāna), is at least 7 rayana and at the utmost 500 dhanu tall, possesses a quantity of life of more than 8 years and of a crore of puvvas at the most, is either a man or a human ‘neuter' (purisa-napumsaga), possesses the four passions in the lowest degree (samjalana); his occupa
ascribed to Romeople first acqin XI 9 and
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