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and contemplation and penetration into the real nature of the dharmas, following the instructions of the Buddhas to suppress the desires and practise the apramāda, and thus eradicate the duh-silatā.
(c) Naiskramya In the extant Tripitakas, naiskramya (Pali-nekkhamma) has been derived from the Sanskrit word 'niskramana', i. e. coming out of the worldly bondage of life and death and its affinity with nikkhanta (Sans. nişkrānta) has also been sought. Though it has been metaphorically associated with the Sanskrit naişkāmya', the Pali canons use this word in the sense of ‘Kāmanih-sarana' where the sense of renouncing or suppressing desires, emancipation from the worldliness, freedom from lust and acquisition of Nirvāṇa is obvious. .
The Mahāyāna Sūtras retain the meaning of renunciation as preserved in the Pali passages. In the Lankāvatāra, the word naiskramya has been used in the sense of renouncing the worldly desires and lust.
In the $Bh; Arya Asanga uses the word in the literal sense of 'vairāgva', renunciation and non-attachment. Out of the three sub-sections (bhūmis) of the S. Bh., he names the last one as 'naiskramyabhūmis and defines it as :
Laukikañcaiva vairāgyar tathā lokottarena ca|
Tāyoścaiva hi sambhāro bhūmirnaiskramyasamjñitāl|6 1. Vide, PTSD, s. v. nekkhamma. 2. Itivuttaka, 61; Mahāvagga, p. 21, 104; A. N , II. 484; cp. M. N.
I. 154-55; D. N., I. 95, III. 186, 212, 224; M. N., III. 195 and
elsewhere; for more references, vide PTSD s. v. ibid. 3. Mtu., I. 107.3, 173.13, 283.19; II. 321.12, 357,13, 422.10;
LV., XI. 32.d; XIII. 14.d; 49.d, 142.d; XIV. 40-d; p. 316.13;
DBS, pp. 12.19. 4. LS, X. 324. 5. Vide, JGIRI, XXIV. 132. 6. Vide , ŚBh., p. 169; also, p. 35.1-4.
