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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
www.kobatirth.orgAcharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
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Notes. Now comes the awe-inspiring command or the charge, as if in a lion's roar, from a great conquerer like Buddha the Sakyan hero. The command and its tone are indeed worthy of such a master who achieved selfconquest through a valorous will not to cease to strive, whether 'the sky be rent asunder or the earth leave her fixed station' (nabham phaleyya, pathavim caleyya). It will be noticed that the Udanavarga verse has a different simile, and the expression is weaker than the Prakrit or its Pali counterpart. Dhunatha-Pali dhunatha =dhunita (Divyavadana), "trample down." The pression is metaphorical, implying the idea of distending cotton. Macuno sena Pali maccuno senam="the hosts of the lord of death" (Udanavarga). Here, death is but another epithet of the tempter Mara, whose fighting units are mentioned in the Padhanasulta (Suttanipata, No. 28), vv. 436-39.
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15 apramata smatimata suŝila bhotu bhichavi susamahitasagapa sacita anurachadha O
Cf. Digha, II. p. 1201 :
Appamatta satimanto susila hotha bhikkhavo Susamähitsankappa sacittaṁ anurakkhatha.
(A3, 5)
Cf. Udanav., ch. IV. ("Purity"), v. 39:
"The Bhixu who is truly moral and who delights in earnestness brings thus all his thoughts well under control, and his mind is in safety."
Notes. This verse sets forth the first requisites of selfconquest which are that the Bhikkhus intent on defeating the hosts of Mara must be of an undaunted spirit and wellbehaved, having a well concentrated will and a well controlled mind. Bhotu=Pali hotu, Sk. bhavatu, a singular verb used with a plural nominative.
1 M. Senart cites as a parallel the Dhammapada verse 327.
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