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come from the mother (māiy’anga), bones, marrow, hair and nails from the father (piiy'anga). These parental contributions to the body (ammā-piiya sarīraya) subsist as long as the forthcoming being (bhava-dhāraņijja sarīraya) is alive (avvāvanna).
Cf. Lehre par. 64 where reference is made to Tand. 7a and 8a, Sūy. II 3,21 (on māu-oya etc.) and Thāņa 170b (on māuy'anga i.e. Viy. māiy'anga, etc.).
b. A fully developed embryo that has by magical means participated in a cruel war or attended a devout sermon outside the mother's womb will accordingly be reborn as a H or as a G if it dies in the womb.
Here the child, though still unborn, is already fully developed (savvähim pajjattihim pajjattae), possesses intellect, the five senses, will and the body of transformation: veuvviya-laddhie ... veuvviya-samugghāenam samohaņai.For parâņieņam Abhay. has parâņiyam ņam; the word is missing in the old edition. The expression tahā-rūva samaņa vā māhaņa vā is quite common, see I 8', II 56, III 12a etc. The term tahā-rūva (a Jaina variant of the Buddhist tathä-gata?) means 'true', 'recognizable as such'.
c. The embryo's positions (lying etc.), conditions (sleeping etc.) and feelings (happiness etc.) are the same as the mother's.
d. Normal and abnormal birth and marks are in accordance with the embryo's former karman. * *
The old edition has viņihāyam avajjati (hence ápadyate, Abhay.) for v. agacchai.- Probably we should twice read vanna-bajjhāņi (instead of v.-v.) - varņa-bahyani (Abhay.'s second explanation), not varnah ... vadhyo ... yeşām tāni; cf. viriya-vajjha in I 83 and itthi-veya-vajjha in XXXIII i 1.
8. BĀLA.
1 (gob) * Unwise people (eganta-bāla manussa) are reborn among HAMG, wise people (eganta-pandiya m.) attain liberation (anta-kiriyā) or are reborn in the heavens (kappôvavattiyā); partly wise people (bāla-pandiya m.) cannot be reborn as H, but only as AMG.
pannāyanti: prajñāyete scil. "by me' (kevalinā, Abhay.).--uvaramai for usual viramai.
2 (grb) Casuistic application of the theory of five kinds of actions, viz [1] physical (kāiyā kiriyā), [2] instrumental (ahi
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