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had warned against opening the fourth hillock. Likewise G. wil destroy Mv. if he ventures to speak ill of him, and will spare Ananda if he warns Mv.
vappi (also oppā, ppü) = vapri (not vapus as Abhay. explains) 'a hillock, an ant-hill', cf. vamrī, valmika.
C 2. (671a) At Kotthaya Āņanda informs Mv. of this threat. Mv. admits G.'s power but declares that it can do nothing against an Arhat. C 3. (671b) He orders Āņanda to warn Goy. and the other disciples against encountering G. C 4. (673b) While Aộanda is still carrying out this instruction G. goes to Mv. at Kotthaya and on the ground of his theory of reanimation (see B 5 above) denies to have actually been Mv.'s disciple: in fact he is not G. but Udāi Kundiyāyaṇiya and has entered G.'s body (the real G., Mv.'s disciple, having died long ago) only in order to undergo his seventh and last reanimation. He also specifies his six former reanimations, their place and duration.
According to G.'s theory all beings attain final perfection (sijjhai) after a mahāmāṇasa period (see below) during which they rid themselves of 560.603 particles of karman (kamm'amsa = karma-bheda, Abhay.). On the interpretation of the text, esp. on the question whether one must read the loc. sg. kammani (text, Abhay., LEUMANN) or the nom. pl. kammāni (HOERNLE, BASHAM) or the gen. part. pl. kammāņa(m) see SCHUBRING p. 260. Within that period successively ro they are born in an infinite number of classes (samjūha = samyūtha: nikāya-višeșa, Abhay.), 2° they are alternately born seven times as a god (jahā Țhāna-pade refers to Pannav. 2:103a, cf. 101a) in seven different classes (samjüha, for the details see HOERNLE p. 20, n. 5, and SCHUBRING p. 260 on BASHAM pp. 249-255: the interpretations differ very much one from another as well as from the one proposed here) and seven times as a sentient being (sanni-gabbha), and 3° finally they pass through reanimation (pautta-parihāra, see B 5 above) in seven consecutive bodies. As to the mahāmānasa period mentioned supra it is equal to 8.400.000 mahakappa periods, one mahākappa being equal to 300.000 sara periods. A sara is explained thus: the river Ganges is 500 yojanas in length (see SCHUBRING p. 260, n. I), half a yojana broad and 500 dhanus deep. The last of a series of seven Gangās (called Gangā, Mahā-Gangā, Sādiņa-G., Maccu-G., Lohiya-G., Avai-G., Param'avai[-G.]) each of which has seven times the dimensions of the preceding one, consequently is equal to 1 X 76 = 117.649 Gangās. Well then: removing one grain of sand from [the banks ? of] such a Param'āvai-Gangā every hundred years, it would take a sara period to exhaust all its sand.--For ādinara (SCHUBRING p. 260,3) read ādinava.
C 5. (677) Mv. replies that G. is like a thief who in vain tries to hide himself in different disguises. C 6. (677b) G. gets
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