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www.kobatirth.orgAcharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
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Cf. Dhammap., vv. 204, 2037 (Sukhav, vv. 8,7):Arogya paramă lábha, santuţthi paramar dhanam Vissäsa parama ñati, nibbānam paramam sukbam. Jigacchå paramā rogā, samkhårā paramā dukbă, Etam hatva yathabhūtam nibbānam paraman sukham.
Cf. Udânav., ch. XXVI. (“Nirvīva ''), vv. 6-7 :“ Absence of disease is the best of possessions, contented. ness the best of riches, a true friend the best of friends,
pirvāpa the greatest happiness." “All compound things (sabskara) are the greatest of pains, hunger the worst of diseases; if one has found this out,
he has found the highest nirräpa." Notes. These two verses form an excellent pair serving to
throw by contrast the two aspects of human life into clear relief. After lingering so long upon decay and impermanence, it is, indeed, a great relief to read two verses which contain a message of hope. In the midst of decay and decrepitude there is a state of health, contentment and bliss which abides. The logical succession of thought is kept up better in the order in wbich the verses occur in Prakrit and Sanskrit.
Aroga parama labha=Pāli ārogya paramā lābhā, health is a great gain's Health is a medical term, used figuratively in the Buddhist phraseology to denote Degatively a state of the absence of hunger or appetition. That'health is a great blessing of life is a common-sense view, the natural desire of mankind, as, perhaps, of all forms of life being to live in valour, vigour and energy (saurye, vīrye, balasi). The Buddhist teaching serves only to widen the idea of health, which is a state of well-being of the body as well as of the mind. A healthy mind is that which is free from sense-appetite. Satuthi parama dhana=Pāli santutthi paramam dhanam, "contentment is a great possession'. Contentment is a positive nomenclature for aroga, as wealth is that for gain.
3 ......(suhaparicai]. .........matrasuha dhiro sabasu vi(vu) la suha O
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1 Frak. C. XXXIXVI, 2, not adjusted by M, Sonart, who reads rula. * Supplied according to . Bonart's suggestion,
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