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THE CANONICAL NIKSEPA
to PUDI AVI-KĀIYĀ, ĀHĀRA nikṣepa for PUDHAVI-KĀIYĀ supplied in a few lines. The sūtra ends with jāva vanassai-kāiyā. This covers the beings of the three remaining elements (water, fire, wind) as well and concludes the treatment of the pentad of inanimate beings (earth, water, fire, wind, plants). --- Sūtras 646-647: 7 Applications for the remaining kinds of beings, connection with the basic text loosening. --- Sūtras 648-649: 7 Once more "ähāra" in connection with the neraiyas Gāva vemāniyā). ------ Prajñāpanā 28.2 (Sūtras 650-657) again treats āhāra in connection with the different kinds of beings: besides FIAMC, "jīvā" and "siddhā".
On the basis of this survey we can explain our presentation of the three Bhagavati niksepas. All the three niksepas cover only a few lines. The way of reference is parallel in the case of No.75 34 and No.7635, and these have to be reviewed together. In both cases, the reference formula ends with janā NERAIVĀNAM. Although the relevant part from which the text is to be supplied has not been mentioned, the reference in No.76935 clearly points to the identical nikṣepa in Prajñāpanā 28.1.645 (PUDHAVI -KĀIYA). Not of course in the sense that this niksepa contains the full text (it does not even reach up to davvao'), but on account of the fact that in the Prajñāpanā nikṣepa (28.1. 645) the reference jahā NERAIYĀNAM is unequivocal: in the chain of AHĀRA niksepas supplied (or implied) in Prajñāpanā 28.1, NERAIYA is the first and PUDHAVI-KĀIYĀ the third. We can designate the PUDHAVI-KĀIYA niksepa in Prajñāpanā 28.1.645 as "intermediate reference in contradistinction to the NERAIYĀ niksepa as the "real reference". Such an intermediate member or "intermediate reference" is missing in the case of No.75934. No doubt, Prajñāpanā 28.1 does contain a tract on the ASURA-KUMĀRĀ (see above), but this is reduced to such an extent, that the niksepa contained in it is not even indicated in the actual text (leaving aside the "2nd extension" which is of little use in the present context). We only get the phrase evam jahā NERAIYĀNAM tahā ASURAKUMĀRĀNA vi bhaniyavvam, and it is to this phrase that jaha NERAI YANAM in No.75 34 refers. In other words: the rest of No.75°34 has to be supplied from the NERAIYA niksepa in Prajñāpanā 28.1 via the ASURA-KUMĀRĀ niksepa in the same chapter. It was, however, not advisable in this case to include "ASURA-KUMĀRA matter" as intermediate reference. The second complication in connection with No.75 34 and No.76 35 consists in the reference to Prajñāpanā 11.396 which is embedded in the NERAIYĀ niksepa (see our survey of Prajñāpanā 28.1). - The procedure in No.78 37 is remarkably simple. There is (without mention of the work) a reference to the AHĀRA nikṣepa in Jīvābhigama, which supplies the complete text and which is to be inserted up to the end of the 1st extension (the 2nd extension has been dropped by the redactor of the Bhagavatī niksepa). It is for this reason that we have adopted the simple procedure of mentioning merely the number of lines (almost 29) which have to be supplied from the relevant work, which is Jīvābhigama 1.13 (section in the middle of the sūtra: S.II, p. 107, line 10 to p. 108, line 8). - It should be added that No.75 34 and No.76 35 on the one hand and No.78 37 on the other are part and parcel of āhāra/anamanti tracts, analogous to the tract in Prajñāpanā 28.1. However, the two tracts in Bhagavatī are more or less secondary if
