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6a (1 12a) In the sanctuary Chattapalāsaya near Kayangalā Mv. answers questions posed by the brahman Khan da ga Kaccāyana, a disciple of Gaddabhāli. Khandaga had not been able to answer these questions when the monk (niyantha) Pingalaga, a disciple of Mv. (Vesāliya-sāvaya), propounded them to him at Sāvatthi.
WEBER edited and discussed the Khandaga-episode in his Uber ein Fragment der Bhagavatí, ABAW 1865-66, p. 242 seqq.- For satshi-tanta = șaști-tantra 'the doctrine of the sixty conceptions (particular to the Sāņkhya philosophy)' see WEBER, O.c. p. 247; SCHRADER, ZDMG 68, p. 110 seqq.--samkhāna : ‘arithmetic' (ganita-skandha, Abhay.)?-In this text comes the first change of scene. Whenever this happens in the middle of an udd. (see II 55, XIII 63, XVI 3) the text says that Mv. or the person questioned leaves the preceding scene and travels through the country (janavaya-vihāram viharai).-Vesaliya is Mv. himself (cf. Lehre par. 17) and probably savaya (with niyantha) here is 'one who heard the Law from the Master's own lips' like the Agra- and Mahā-śrāvakas in Buddhism; cf. V 4?; cf. also Lehre p. 158, n. 2; p. 27, n. 2 and p. 29, n. 3 (Vesāliya-sāvayāņam arihantānam) = Doctrine p. 248, n. 2, p. 33, n. 2 and p. 37, n. 4. Abhay. (112b) gives an improbable explanation.
1. The world, the [single] soul, liberation (siddhi) and the [single] liberated being (siddha) are finite (saanta), viz single (ega), from the material point of view (davvao) and finite, scil. limited, from the point of view of (the) place (they occupy: khettao), but they are infinite (ananta) from the point of view of time (kālao) and condition (bhāvao).
bhavimsu, with bhavai and bhavissai, is used for the sing.; see Pischel 516 and cf. III 1 comm.
2 (118a). The soul 'grows' (vaddhai), scil. its wandering in samsāra is extended, by the twelve kinds of unwise death (bālamarana) viz (voluntary] death caused by [1] weariness (valayamarana), [2] incapacity (vas'atta-m.), [3] an interior dart (antosalla-m.), [4] the desire for a certain rebirth (tabbhava-m.), [5] jumping from a mountain (giri-padana), [6] jumping from a tree (taru-p.), [7] drowning oneself (jala-ppavesa), [8] burning oneself (jalana-pp.), [9] poisoning oneself (visa-bhakkhana), [10] killing oneself with a weapon (satth'ovādaņa), [11] hanging oneself (vehānasa) or (12) offering oneself as a prey to the vultures (giddha-pattha = grdhra-sprsta, i.e. g.-bhakṣita).
The soul 'diminishes' (hāyai), scil. its wandering in samsāra is shortened, by the two kinds of wise death (pandiya-m.) viz
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