Lalit Vistara

Author(s): Rajendralala Mitra
Publisher: Asiatic Society

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8. According to the Abhidhamma Sangaha, a Páli work on Baudaba metaphysics, celestial regions are divided, with reference to the predominant characteristics of their habitants, into 4 classes; 1st, Arúpyárachara (world of semblance), which includes three regions: 2nd, Kamivuchart (world of desire), comprehending six regions: 3rd, Rúpácachara (world of form), comprehending eighteen regions: and 4th, Lokottara, inch.ding eleven recious, of which ten aro appropriate to Bodhisattvas and the last is the abode of Ali Buddha.
9. Heretics. Saus. Katerthekens, lit. wicked Tirthikas, From the circumstans of de Turthi as having been described as followers of the Vedas I take them to be Hindus. Burnouf also did so; but some European sellars are of opion that they were Jains. Seo Froegedings of the A. S. B. for 1878, and Journal R. A. S. Vol. X. 10. This i perhaps the most unportant word in the annals of Indian metaphysics, and fully to explain the various senses in which the diffrent schools of Philosophy, whether Banddha or Brában, have dined it, wo amount to. nothing short of a su mary of all that has ben written by the Indians regarding the ultimate end of man. Leasing aside the her ties, one finds that even the orthodox Buddhas divided into four different sects according to the meaning they attach to this term. I had made long extracts in illustration of how it is at one time made equivalent to eternal matter-a primorder car, or the abode of eternal bliss, or exemp fion from transmigration, and at another time a positive nothing or whility bad I hnd I would be, after all. in the same prodien. nent as honest Ciero, when he said, "though I have translated the Tineus of Plato, I do not understand it," uvo suppressed them altogether, and will only state that it is invariably used to indicato the ultimate reward which the caion Indian systems of religion hold forth to their votarie,be that absolute nihility, eternal repose, or enjoyment in higher spheres.
11. Jamhadripa.- According to the united testimony of the eighteen Puráuas, this word indicates the whole of Asia, but the Buddhist works confine it within the natural boundary of India.
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