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in any of the extant Buddhist canons. phrases, clauses and sentences have been in the description of Sila and its eulogy.1 these passages are also not known to us.
In the body of the text, the Pratityasamutpadavibhanganirdeśa-sutra and the Saptasuryopama Sutras have been referred by name and passages from them have actually been quoted.
Similarly, various quoted or referred
The sources of
In the SBh. no other work of Arya Asanga has been quoted or referred. But in the Pañcavijñānasaṁprayuktā bhumi of the YBS, the SBh. has been referred as a part of that work. Sravakasambhārprayogam ca śravakabhūmau vistareņa vakṣyāmi'.4
Likewise, the present text finds mention in the Bodhi. at three places :
1. In the context of the Bodhisattvas knowing and. practising the thirtyseven bodhipakṣya dharmas: iha bodhisattvaḥ....upāyaparigṛhitena jñānena saptatrimsad bodhipakṣyan dharman yathabhutam prajānāti. na caitan sākṣātkāroti. Dvividhenāpi yānanayena tān yathabhūtam prajānāti srāvakayānanayena ca mahāyānanayena ca. Tatra śravakayananayena yathābhutam prajānāti. Tadyatha śrāvakabhūmau sarvam yathānirdiṣṭam veditavyaṁ.5
2. In the Pratistha paṭala of the Bodhi., while describing the various functions of the daśabalas of Tathāgata, it has been stated: Nānādhātujñānabalena tathagato hinadhātukatānśca vibhajya yathabhūtam prajānāti. Yathendriyan yathāśayān yathānuśayānśca sattvänsteṣu teşvāv
1. Ibid., p. 37-763.
2.
Ibid., p. 382.
3.
P. 473.
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5.
YBS., I. 175.
Bodhi, pp. 176-77.
