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The layman reveals the Sutras to the Bhiksus, Mahdvagga iii. 5,9. Superstition, the danger of the layman (Kola, iv. 86).
116. The MahdndmasMra in Anguttara iv. 220 and Samyutta v. 395 (Sumangalavildsini743) has simply: yato kho mahdndmabuddham saranam goto hoti dhammam saranam goto hoti samgham saranam goto hoti ettdvatdkho mahdndma updsako hoti = One becomes an Upasaka by taking the Three Refuges.
The Sanskrit Mahdndmasatra (Samyukta, TD 2, p. 236bl7) contains in addition a short formula added to the taking of the refuges "Consider me as an Upasaka. " (The same in Divya, 47, where we have: Vpdsikdmi cdsmdn bhagavdn dhdrayatu). This Sutra is partially quoted in the Vydkhyd' Kiyatd bhadanta updsako bhavati / yatah khalu mahdndman grh* avadatavasanah purusah purusendrtyasamanvdgataff. . . updsikdm mam iyatopdsako bhavati. (Vydkhyd' GfhUy uddeia- padam / avaddtavasana iti nirde/apadam / purusa ity udde/apadam / purusendriyasamanvdgata iti nirde/apadam). Hsiian-tsang adds to the words of the candidate the words karundm updddya. . . dhdraya.
iii. A more complete formula with the same variants, Anguttara L56, Samyutta iv. l 13, v. 12, CuUavagga, vi. 4. 5, Digha 185: So aham bhagavantam saranam gacchdmi dhammam ca bhikkhu- samgham ca / updsakam mam bhagavd dhdretu ajjatagge pdnupetam saranam gatam. Com- mentary of the Sumangalavildsim: mam bhagavd "updsako ayam"ti evam dhdretujdndtu: "May the Blessed One recognize me as being an Upasaka. " Pdnupetam tipdnehiupetam: that is, "As long as
my life lasts, may the Blessed One consider me as upeta (having come to him), not having any other master, an Upasaka having taken the Three Refuges, doing what is suitable (kapptya). May one cut
off my head if I say of the Buddha that he is not Buddha. . . " See note 126.
iv. The formula that Vasubandhu describes as that of the DfstasatyasMra (see note 125), and which is quoted, in its first part, by the Vaibhasikas (page 598, line 28) with the reading prdndpeta in place of prdnopeta (reading interpreted and discussed p. 598, line 31 and p. 600, line 10): Updsakam mam dhdraya adydgrena ydvajjtvam prdndpetam [faranam gatam abhiprasannam].
? v. The Sarvastivadin formula (given in the Shib-sung chieh-mo pi-ch'iuyao-yung, TD 23, p. 496al4, edited and translated by Wieger, Bouddhisme Chinois, 1146-7): "I, so-and-so, from today to the end of my life, take refuge in the Buddha, the best of two legged beings. . . Know that I am an Upasaka having taken definitive refuge in the Buddha, Dharma, Sarhgha, rejoicing {abhfprasanna - lo %) in the Dharma of the Buddha &akyamuni, having undertaken the Five Silas" This is repeated three times. Then"t>ne explains the Five Silas and the candidate answers that he will observe them. The expression "having undertaken the Five Precepts" (shou wu chieb 2L$( ) replaces the prdndpeta of formula iv.
vi. We possess the Sanskrit original of the expression: "having undertaken the Five Silas" in
the Abhisamaydlamkdrdloka, commenting on the Afpasdbasrikdprajtidpdramitd\ p. 137. We learn that the Vinaya has two readings {patha). According to the first, the candidate begs the master (who receives him as an Upasaka) to consider him as an Upasaka who has taken the Three Refuges; according to the second, to consider him as an Upasaka who has taken the Three Refuges and the Five Preospts.
Triiaranaparigrahdt (read ? gamandt) panca/iksdpadaparigrahdc copdsakas tatbopdsiketi dvidhdbhedah / trifaranaparigrhitam (read ? gatam) updsakam mdm dcdtyo dhdrayatu / tathd triiaranagatam pancasiksapadaparigrhitam updsakam mdm dcdryo dhdrayatv iti viniyadvidhd- pdthdt. (According to a bad copy of the Calcutta MSS, RajendralaL Buddhist literature, p. 194).
There are thus two types of Upasaka: one who has undertaken only the Refuges, and one who has undertaken the Three Refuges and who also undertakes the Five Precepts.
vii. Nepalese formulary which is very confused (the renouncing of the ten transgressions precedes the taking of the Five Precepts) in Adikarmapradipa (p. 189 of my edition in Bouddhisme, 1898), summarized by Minayev, Rechetches, p. 296.
117. Paramartha: "No, for the person in question produces the five renouncings. " 118. We have iv. 38 dama = samvara, but the Tibetan translates dama as 'dsd-ba. 119. See above note ll6. iv.
120. Vydkhyd: Yathaiva hi bhiksur labdhasamvaro'pi jnapticaturthena karmand fiksdpaddni yathdsthidamgrdhyateprajOdpyate/ itascdmutaicapdrdjikddibhyastavasamvarah/anydnicate
sabrahmacdrinah kathayisyantiti.
121. When the Sramanera says: Aham evamndmd tarn bhagavantam tathdgatam arhamtam samyaksambuddham idkyamunim idkyddhirdjam pravraptam anupravrajdmi grhasthalmgam partyajdmipravrajyaHngamsamddaddmi/ irdmanoddesammdmdhdrayaandrepeatthisformula {evamydvat trir api)f he acquired the discipline of the irdmanera which is then explained to him in detail.
122. The Mahdvyutpatti, 84, adds apanpurnakdrm before paripurnakdrm; the Chinese and Tibetan versions translate pradeiakdrm = one who observes {spyod-pa, hsing f j ) for a day (tU-tshe = "one day" and also pradeia).
The Vydkhyd quotes the Sutra (Mahdndmasutru, Samyukta, TD 2, p. 236b): Ktyatd bhadanta upasaka ekadefakdribhavati. . . paripurnakdri / iha Mahdndmann updsakaprdndtipdtam prahdya prdndtipdtdd vtrato bhavati / iyatd Mahdndmann upasaka iiksdydm ekadefakdri bhavati . . . dvdbhydm prativiratah pradeiakdri bhavati / tribhyah pratwkatai caturbhyo vd yabhuyaskdri bhavati / parkabhyah prativiratah paripurnakdri bhavati.
Chavannes, Cinq cent contes, 1244, illustrates this text.
123. Paramartha: "They are so called because they observe;" Hsuan-tsang: "So termed with
reference (yueh $Q ) to their observing. "
124. Hsiian-tsang continues: "If it were otherwise, the Upasaka of one precept would be called 'undertaker of one rule*. . . " The question is to know whether there are not some Upasakas, not endowed with the discipline in all its five parts, but who are engaged in observing one, two, three, or four rules. No, according to the Vaibhasikas: the ekadeiakdrin is an Upasaka who violates four of
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the rules that he has undertakea
In Anguttara, iiL215, the Upasaka Gavesin, silesu apartp&rakdrin, declares to his comrades:
"From this day forward, consider me as su^suapaftparakdrm/'Tben he undertakes, one by one, the obligations of a Bhiksu [who is the only person with the complete precepts]. Anguttara, iv. 380, v. 131.
125. According to the Vydkhyd, the DfSpasatyasMra: with reason, as this results from the very text of Vasubandhu, page 600, line 10: "Further. . . "
Dfspasatyasatra signifies "the Sutra in which a candidate, an Upasaka, has seen the Truths. " This refers to the text Divya, 75, or to a similar text: the Blessed One destroyed the false opinion of personalism of the Brahmin Indra, who obtains the result of Srotaapanna:. . . sa dfspasatyah kathayati / atikrdnto'bam bhadantatikrantah (The Pa|i reads abhikkantam . . . ) / eso'ham bhagavantam buddham iaranam gacchdmi dharmam ca bhiksusamgham ca / updsakam ca mam dhdraya adyagrena yavajjivam pranoptetam iaranam gatam abhfprasannam (Edition: gatam /. abhiprasanno'thendro brdhmana. . . ; same text, Divya, 462, with the best reading).
Saeki says that the DfspasatyasStra is the Sutra of Srona the son of Grhapati (Samyukta, TD 2, p. 6b25): "Srona, having removed all dust, abandoned all defilement, obtained the pure eye of the Law, at the moment when he saw the Law. . . he rose and said to Sariputra, 'I, from today onward, take refuge ? ? . '" Possessors of the eye, candidates for the quality of Upasaka, are the kings Udena and Sona (S, iy. l 13): but they employ the ordinary formula: updsakam mam Bhdradvdjo dhdretu ajjataggepanupetamsaranam gatam, ornittingxhe abhiprasanna of the Sanskrit (On abhiprasanna, see Samyutta, v. 225,378).
126. Such is indeed the meaning of the expression prdnopeta ~ srong dan bsno ba = "risking one's life" = "giving up, abandoning one's life" (Hsiian-tsang). We see in note 112. iii, that this is the interpretation of Buddhaghosa.
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127. Pdnupetam can be explained bypranebhyo'petam, prdnakapetam,prdndtipdtdd$bhyo petam.
This last version "freed from killing, etc" justifies the Vaibhasika doctrine. To say "Know that I am an Upasaka free from killing" is to undertake abstaining from killing.
128. The kuddanukhuddakas do not form part of the precepts, Anguttara, i. 231.
129. See the translation of Samghabhadra's commentary, xxiii. 4, foL 84 and following, in the
Introduction.
Vibhdsd, TD 27, p. 177al6. Some say that taking Refuge in the Buddha is taking refuge in a body
made up of the head, the neck, the stomach, the back, the hands, and the feet of the Tathagata. It is explained then that this body, born of a father and mother, is impure (sasrava) dharmas, and is thus not a locus of refuge: rather, the Refuge is the Aiaiksa dharmas oi the Buddha whichformBodhi, the dharmakaya. Some say that taking Refuge in the Dharma is to take refuge in the Three Truths of [Suffering, Arising, and the Path]; or in the good, bad, and neutral dharmas, etc; or in the rules imposed upon the Bhiksus: "One should do this, one should not do that" It is explained then that all these dharmas are conditioned {samskrta) and impure; that they are thus not the refuge; and that the Refuge is solely the Truth of Extinction (nirvdhasatya), the end of thirst, NirvSna.
Some say that taking Refuge in the Sangha is to take refuge in the Sangha of Pravrajitas of the
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four castes {ssu-hsmg ch'u-chiaJBt&tti ^). It is then explained that the attitudes (ityapatha), etc
dharmas which make up the Sangha.
130. The designation "Buddha" also refers to other dharmas, and other gunas, but not principally so (apradhanyena).
131. This is the dharmakaya, vii. 34; Museon, 1913, p. 266.
132. Hsiian-tsang: rupadikaya. See vii. 31. 133. Vydkky&Lmkikamdi^asyapunya^ vilaksana tvM tulyatvat.
? Vibhdsd, TD 27, p. 177c21. If one takes Refuge in a Buddha, the refuge will be partial; and if one takes Refuge in all the Buddhas, why does one say: "I take Refuge in the Buddha," and not "in all the Buddhas? ". . . To take Refuge in the Buddha is to take Refuge in all the Buddhas whose number exceeds that of the sands of the Ganges. . . The word "Buddha" embraces all of the Buddhas, because they are of the same species. When one takes Refuge in the Sangha, is this to take refuge in one disciple of the Buddha or in all of them? . . .
134. Vibhdsd, TD 27, p. 178a24, quotes the same text: tatra bhagavdms trapusabhallikau vanijav dmantrayate sma / eteyuvdm buddham iaranam gauhatam / dhannam ca /yo'sau bhavisyaty andgate'dhvani samgho noma tarn apt iaranam gauhatam. (Excerpt from the Introduction to the Sanghabhedavastu of which a fragment, discovered in Turkestan [(Miran)], has been published in JRAS. 1913, p. 850). Compare Mahdvagga, i. 4; Mahdvastu, iii. 304; Lalita, p. 386; Dulva, iv. 54b. Numerous variants.
135. Many opinions, Vibhdsd, TD 27, p. 177cL
136. Dhammapada 188-192; Uddnavarga, xxvii. 28-30; Divydvaddna, p. 164; Vibhdsd, TD 27, p.
177a4.
137. We have bahum ve saranamyanti. . . ; Divya: bahavah iaranam ydnti, which Paramartha
translates. The Tibetan Uddnavarga has phal-cher.
138. Khema, Divya: iresfha; Uddnavarga and the principal Chinese versions.
139. Vydkhyd' Akriyaydm akarane ntyama ekdntatd akrrydntyamah / so'karanasamvarah akara- nalaksanahsamvarah/ nasamdddnikahsamvaraityarthaJh/ sacaSautrdntikanayendvasthdviiesa eva/ Vaibhdsikanayena tu iUdngam avijnaptir iti
See above note 24, some references to the Pali sources, setughdtavirati = samuuhedavirati, sampattavirati, samdddnavirati; p. 48, the distinction between samdddnaiua and dbarmatdprd- tHambhikaiua.
The Abhidhamma has many points of similarity with the Abhidharma, but the correspondence is not perfect.
The Vaibhasikas attribute pure samvara, or restraint, to an Aryan (iv. l7c); this samvara is not simply akarana, but a certain rupa, avijfiapti, a setu (see note 24); the Sautrantikas do not admit the existence of avijfiapti: for them the series of the Aryan has become incapable of certain actions (see note 145), the seeds of these actions having been eliminated: akaranasamvara, an immovable avijfiapti which the Vaibhasikas postulate, is not a thing in and of itself but is akriyaydm ekdntatd, a certain abstention resulting from a transformation of the personality.
140. Hsiian-tsang: "They have not, with respect to the series of all beings, said, "I renounce incontinence. '" Paramartha: "They have not, with respect to this series (asmdt samtdndt), said, 1 renounce
141. Hsiian-tsang translates: "If lying is authorized, he would transgress all the rules. Having transgressed the rules, at the time when he is interrogated,--if lying has been authorized,--he would say, 1 have not done it,' and because of this there would be many transgressions of the rules. Also the Blessed One, desiring that one uphold the rules, places the renouncing of lying in all of the rules, asking, 'How could an Upasaka, if he violates the rule, declare it himself and prevent new transgressions? '"
Compare the Sutra to Rahula on lying, Majjhbna, 1415; the edict of Bhabra. 0
142. Pratiksepanasdvadya,pratisedha? ,prajnapti,inoppositiontowhatisatransgressionbyits very nature or prafertisdvadya. This is transgression of one who does a forbidden action, because he does not respect the law (idsana) of the Blessed One (iv. l22c).
143. On jalogi, see ConcUes bouddhiques, Muston, 1905, p. 290; Levi,/^j. 1912, ii. p. 508.
144. The text is quoted in the Vydkhyd: Mdm idstdram uddiiabdhih kuidgrendpi madyam na patavyam. In Divya, 191, we have: mdm bho bhiksavah idstdram uddiiabdhir madyam apeyam
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adeyamantatahkuidgrendpi,whichSpeyercorrectstouddifya[bhavajdbhir. . . Huber,Sourcesdu Divya, BEFEO, 1906,31, sanctions this correction, and shows the relation of the Dwya with the 79th prdyaicittika.
The Blessed One not only forbids strong liquor in inebriating quantities (madantya). For the sick Upasaka who consents to eat dog meat but not to drink wine, and who quotes the "Sutra of the House," see Sutrdlamkdra, Huber, 434. Chavannes, Cinq cents contres, iii. 14.
Four upakkilesas: surdmerayapana, methuna, jdtarupa, and micchajiva {Anguttara, ii. 53, AtthasdUni, 380).
145. See above p. 604. If one puts milk mixed with alcohol into their mouths, the milk would enter their mouths, but not the alcohol, Sumangalavildsini, p. 305.
146. Mdo (Csoma), xxvi, 425.
147. Four kdyaduicaritas, killing, stealing, forbidden sex, and surdmaireyapramddasthdna. Alcohol
is missing from the classical lists of the kdyaduicaritas, Mahdvyutpatti, 91, etc
148. Hsuan-tsang translates: "because, by reason of the transgression of this rule, one would commit a transgression which is by its nature a transgressioa" The Vydkhyd says: If drunk but once, strong liquor is mortal {vyasambhavet\ for the Blessed One said: trim sthdndnipratisevamdnasya ndsti trptir vd alamtd vd parydptir vd / madyam abrahmacaryam stydnamiddham ceti. Same teaching in Anguttara, 1261 {soppassa bhikkhave papisevandya natthi titti, surdmerayapdnassa. . . , methunadhammasamdpattiyd. . . ).
149. The same quantity of madya is madaniya or non-madantya depending upon circumstances. 150. The five balas of the&aiksas are iraddhd, virya, hri, apatrdpya, andprajfid. The order differes in
Anguttara, 111. 1.
151. Vydkhyd: Yadi hrhnattvdt tadanadhydcaranam ajfidtam udakddwat kasmdn na pibanti.
152. The Nandikasutra says: surdmakeyafnadyapramddasthdnendsevitena bhdvitena bahuUkftena kdyasya bheddn narakesupapadyate. Compare Digha, 111182: suramerayapramadafthananuyogo apdyaniko; the same forf&appamddafphdna.
153. Digha, iii. 195,235, Anguttara, iii. 212, Samyutta, ii. 167.
154. Notes of Palmyr Cordier.
a) Surd = anndsava. Vydkhyd: Anndsava iti tandulakrtah. Rice beer or alcohoL This is what
Hemadri says ad Aspdngahrdaya 1. 5. 67: fdlipispakrtam madyam. This is also confirmed by the VaiduryakabhasyaortheautOcommentaryofVagbhata,wheresurd='bru-chan=gro-chan,cereal beer, wheat beer, grain alcohol, in conformity with the Mahdvyutpatti, 23036 where surd = 'bru'i chan (Amarakofa, 2. 10. 39, surd = chaw).
Surd = arrack or raki (rice aquavit, a Persian word Sanskritized under the form of akra, a word which is missing, in this sense, in non-medical dictionaries).
b) Maireya = dravydsava (rdzas las sbyar ba'i btun bo) - tafia. Vydkhyd: Dravydsava itikssurasadikrtah.
According to Arunadatta's commentary on the Aspdngahrdaya, 1. 7. 40, maireya=kharjUrdsava ~ alcohol from dates. The Vaiduryakabhasya explains bu ram chan = rum or tafia; whereas Candranandana (Paddrthacandrikd) and Hemadri say dhanydsava = alcohol from grains. Mahdvyutpatti,250. 58, sbyar ba'i chan; Amarakoia, 2. 10. 42, makes maireya the synonym of dsava {me-tog chan), a liqueur from flowers (of Lythrum fruticosum, etc) and of sldhu {bur chan); rum, tafia.
c) PUgaphalakodravddayo'pi . . . Vydkhyd: Adifabdena nispdvddayo'pi grhyante [MSS. 0
nesydva ].
PUgaphala, arecanut(arecacathecu,palm). Sanskritsynonyms,pugiphala =kramuka=pohala=
guvdka. Mahdvyutpatti,231-34,Pugaphala-glagorsho ia-kramuka,Aspdngahrdaya,4M25 and ? nighanpu, 121. Amarakoia, 3v4/3. 21 goyu.
? Kodrava, tsi-tsi, Asfdnganighantu, 198; Sarat Candra, tsi tse tsi tsi; Mahavyutpatti, 228. 14 ci thse. Nispava, common lablab (a type of bean). Missing in the Mahavyutpatti and, at least in the botanical sense, in the Amarakosa.
155. According to the Vaibhasikas, the preparation, the chief action and the consecutive action of undertakingthePrdtimoksadiscipline(iv. 69c-d)haverespectivelyfortheirpurposeto"bind"the preparation, the chief action and the action consecutive to murder, etc The preparation of the Prdtimoksa considers the preparation of killing, to which it is opposed, and says to it in some manner: "I bind you (samvrnomi); do not arise! "
156. An important point in the theory of the existence of the past and the future, v. 25 (see also i. 34d, trans, p. 99).
157. Compare Yogasutra, ii. 31. We see, Divya, p. 10, that the butcher of sheep, taking up the obligation of morality (sHasamdddna) for the night, obtains great benefits: a daytime hell, a nocturnal paradise.
158. The Tibetan has: "relative to former beings who, having become Buddhas, have entered into Nirvana. "
159. 'To kill sheep"; to kill is translated by gsod.
"Elephant-driver," ndgabandhakd hastipakdh (Vydkhyd). dan po che 'chor ba or 'thser ba,
"he who hunts with an elephant, who torments an elephant" (compare the gaddhabddhin of CuUavagga, L32).
"Slaughterer of fowl," kukkufdn ghnantiti kaukkufikdh, (Vydkhyd); compare Mahavyutpatti, 286. 93, khyi 'chor ba or 'thser ba: "he who hunts with dogs, who torments dogs" through confusion of kukkura with kukkufa (? ).
Vdgurika, according to Mahavyutpatti, 186. 92 (rgyas 'chor ba = he who hunts with a net) and Amarakoia, 2. 10. 27 (vdgurd=ridvags'dzin= mrgabandhini;vdgurika = bya brffiba =jdlika = bya rgya pa) which means "poacher, trapper. " But the Vydkhyd makes an animal of vdgurd:pampd (? ) noma prdnijdtir vdgurdkhydtdm ghnantiti vdgurikdh and the Tibetan version transcribes (ba gu ri
'chor ba).
Compare the lists of Anguttara, L251, iL207, iii. 303,383.
160. Chavannes, Cinq cents contres et apologues, iii. p. 117, no. 415 (TD 4, number 203).
161. Paramartha: "One obtains lack of restraint in two ways: through personal action, and through
approval"
162. See iv. 4lc-d
163. According to the Chinese versions. The orginal has: "I shall constantly give food for a day, a month, a fortnight (tithibhakta, ardhamdsabhakta).
Vydkhyd: Adiiabdena mandalakaranddi grhyate (see below note 182). 164. Compare Mahdvagga, ii. 36. 1, etc; Pdrdjika, i. 8. 2.
165. Mahdvyupatti, 266. 16. Patanty aneneti pataniyam. These are the four Pdrdjikas: unchastity, stealing of a certain importance (yathoktapramdnam adattdddnam), killing of a human being (manusyavadha\ and lying relative to one's supernatural powers (uttamnanusyadharmamfsdvdda) (Finot, . M. r. 1913, ii. 476). See some instructive glosses in Wieger, Bouddhisme chinois, I p. 215 (1910). On the word Pdrdjika, see S. Levi? Mj. 1912, ii. 505, and Wogifosu&,Bodhisattvabhami, p. 36.
166. The Vydkhyd mentions an argument taken from Scripture. It says in the Vinaya: "An immoral (duhiUa) monk who gives advice (anuidsti) to a nun commits (dpadyate) a samghdvas'esa transgression. " Now "immoral" means "guilty of a Pdrdjika," for the text opposes a. prakrtisthah
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fUavanmovk to an immoral monk. Thus the monk guilty of a Pardpka remains a monk, since he can be rendered guilty of a samghdvaiesa. Vinaya uktam /^duhsllai ced bhiksur bhiksunim anuidsti
samgbdvas'esamapadyata Hi / Spannapardpko hi bhiksur duhfilo'bbipreto ndndpantiapdrdjikab prakrtisthab Mavan Hi viparyayepa vacandt / ato'vagamyate / asty asya duffsHasydpi sato bhiksubhavo yasmdt samghdvafesam apadyata ity uktam Hi
167. This text (the SarvSstivadin Vinaya In Ten Recitations, TD 23, p. 157a7-b2) has passed into Mahdvyutpatti 278: abbiksub aframanah, afdkyaputftyaff, dhvasyate bhikfubhdpdt, hatam asya bhavati frdmanyam mathHam patHam pardjHam, apratyuddhdryam asya bhavati irdmanyam, tadyathd tdlo mastakacchhmo'bhavyo haritatvdya / duhillab papadharmo'ntahp&ir avasmtak kafambakajdtafc.
Compare KsHigarbhas&ra in Siksasamuccaya, p. 67. On kaiambaka, below p. 615.
168. All the editions of the Mahdvyutpatti, 270. 37-40.
169. The regularly ordained Bhiksu (jn^pticaturthopasampanna), 270. 41.
Samghabhadra (TD 29, p. 557cl4) recalls that there are five samghas: 1. samgha with modesty,
2. samgha of speechless sheep, 3. samgha of followers (p'eng-tang J$|? ) 4. samgha in the popular meaning of the word (lokasamvrtisamgha = sammutisamgha), and 5. samgha in the proper sense of the word (paramdrthasamgha = dakkhineyyasamgha).
170. Compare Pdrdjika, 18. 1:.
The layman reveals the Sutras to the Bhiksus, Mahdvagga iii. 5,9. Superstition, the danger of the layman (Kola, iv. 86).
116. The MahdndmasMra in Anguttara iv. 220 and Samyutta v. 395 (Sumangalavildsini743) has simply: yato kho mahdndmabuddham saranam goto hoti dhammam saranam goto hoti samgham saranam goto hoti ettdvatdkho mahdndma updsako hoti = One becomes an Upasaka by taking the Three Refuges.
The Sanskrit Mahdndmasatra (Samyukta, TD 2, p. 236bl7) contains in addition a short formula added to the taking of the refuges "Consider me as an Upasaka. " (The same in Divya, 47, where we have: Vpdsikdmi cdsmdn bhagavdn dhdrayatu). This Sutra is partially quoted in the Vydkhyd' Kiyatd bhadanta updsako bhavati / yatah khalu mahdndman grh* avadatavasanah purusah purusendrtyasamanvdgataff. . . updsikdm mam iyatopdsako bhavati. (Vydkhyd' GfhUy uddeia- padam / avaddtavasana iti nirde/apadam / purusa ity udde/apadam / purusendriyasamanvdgata iti nirde/apadam). Hsiian-tsang adds to the words of the candidate the words karundm updddya. . . dhdraya.
iii. A more complete formula with the same variants, Anguttara L56, Samyutta iv. l 13, v. 12, CuUavagga, vi. 4. 5, Digha 185: So aham bhagavantam saranam gacchdmi dhammam ca bhikkhu- samgham ca / updsakam mam bhagavd dhdretu ajjatagge pdnupetam saranam gatam. Com- mentary of the Sumangalavildsim: mam bhagavd "updsako ayam"ti evam dhdretujdndtu: "May the Blessed One recognize me as being an Upasaka. " Pdnupetam tipdnehiupetam: that is, "As long as
my life lasts, may the Blessed One consider me as upeta (having come to him), not having any other master, an Upasaka having taken the Three Refuges, doing what is suitable (kapptya). May one cut
off my head if I say of the Buddha that he is not Buddha. . . " See note 126.
iv. The formula that Vasubandhu describes as that of the DfstasatyasMra (see note 125), and which is quoted, in its first part, by the Vaibhasikas (page 598, line 28) with the reading prdndpeta in place of prdnopeta (reading interpreted and discussed p. 598, line 31 and p. 600, line 10): Updsakam mam dhdraya adydgrena ydvajjtvam prdndpetam [faranam gatam abhiprasannam].
? v. The Sarvastivadin formula (given in the Shib-sung chieh-mo pi-ch'iuyao-yung, TD 23, p. 496al4, edited and translated by Wieger, Bouddhisme Chinois, 1146-7): "I, so-and-so, from today to the end of my life, take refuge in the Buddha, the best of two legged beings. . . Know that I am an Upasaka having taken definitive refuge in the Buddha, Dharma, Sarhgha, rejoicing {abhfprasanna - lo %) in the Dharma of the Buddha &akyamuni, having undertaken the Five Silas" This is repeated three times. Then"t>ne explains the Five Silas and the candidate answers that he will observe them. The expression "having undertaken the Five Precepts" (shou wu chieb 2L$( ) replaces the prdndpeta of formula iv.
vi. We possess the Sanskrit original of the expression: "having undertaken the Five Silas" in
the Abhisamaydlamkdrdloka, commenting on the Afpasdbasrikdprajtidpdramitd\ p. 137. We learn that the Vinaya has two readings {patha). According to the first, the candidate begs the master (who receives him as an Upasaka) to consider him as an Upasaka who has taken the Three Refuges; according to the second, to consider him as an Upasaka who has taken the Three Refuges and the Five Preospts.
Triiaranaparigrahdt (read ? gamandt) panca/iksdpadaparigrahdc copdsakas tatbopdsiketi dvidhdbhedah / trifaranaparigrhitam (read ? gatam) updsakam mdm dcdtyo dhdrayatu / tathd triiaranagatam pancasiksapadaparigrhitam updsakam mdm dcdryo dhdrayatv iti viniyadvidhd- pdthdt. (According to a bad copy of the Calcutta MSS, RajendralaL Buddhist literature, p. 194).
There are thus two types of Upasaka: one who has undertaken only the Refuges, and one who has undertaken the Three Refuges and who also undertakes the Five Precepts.
vii. Nepalese formulary which is very confused (the renouncing of the ten transgressions precedes the taking of the Five Precepts) in Adikarmapradipa (p. 189 of my edition in Bouddhisme, 1898), summarized by Minayev, Rechetches, p. 296.
117. Paramartha: "No, for the person in question produces the five renouncings. " 118. We have iv. 38 dama = samvara, but the Tibetan translates dama as 'dsd-ba. 119. See above note ll6. iv.
120. Vydkhyd: Yathaiva hi bhiksur labdhasamvaro'pi jnapticaturthena karmand fiksdpaddni yathdsthidamgrdhyateprajOdpyate/ itascdmutaicapdrdjikddibhyastavasamvarah/anydnicate
sabrahmacdrinah kathayisyantiti.
121. When the Sramanera says: Aham evamndmd tarn bhagavantam tathdgatam arhamtam samyaksambuddham idkyamunim idkyddhirdjam pravraptam anupravrajdmi grhasthalmgam partyajdmipravrajyaHngamsamddaddmi/ irdmanoddesammdmdhdrayaandrepeatthisformula {evamydvat trir api)f he acquired the discipline of the irdmanera which is then explained to him in detail.
122. The Mahdvyutpatti, 84, adds apanpurnakdrm before paripurnakdrm; the Chinese and Tibetan versions translate pradeiakdrm = one who observes {spyod-pa, hsing f j ) for a day (tU-tshe = "one day" and also pradeia).
The Vydkhyd quotes the Sutra (Mahdndmasutru, Samyukta, TD 2, p. 236b): Ktyatd bhadanta upasaka ekadefakdribhavati. . . paripurnakdri / iha Mahdndmann updsakaprdndtipdtam prahdya prdndtipdtdd vtrato bhavati / iyatd Mahdndmann upasaka iiksdydm ekadefakdri bhavati . . . dvdbhydm prativiratah pradeiakdri bhavati / tribhyah pratwkatai caturbhyo vd yabhuyaskdri bhavati / parkabhyah prativiratah paripurnakdri bhavati.
Chavannes, Cinq cent contes, 1244, illustrates this text.
123. Paramartha: "They are so called because they observe;" Hsuan-tsang: "So termed with
reference (yueh $Q ) to their observing. "
124. Hsiian-tsang continues: "If it were otherwise, the Upasaka of one precept would be called 'undertaker of one rule*. . . " The question is to know whether there are not some Upasakas, not endowed with the discipline in all its five parts, but who are engaged in observing one, two, three, or four rules. No, according to the Vaibhasikas: the ekadeiakdrin is an Upasaka who violates four of
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the rules that he has undertakea
In Anguttara, iiL215, the Upasaka Gavesin, silesu apartp&rakdrin, declares to his comrades:
"From this day forward, consider me as su^suapaftparakdrm/'Tben he undertakes, one by one, the obligations of a Bhiksu [who is the only person with the complete precepts]. Anguttara, iv. 380, v. 131.
125. According to the Vydkhyd, the DfSpasatyasMra: with reason, as this results from the very text of Vasubandhu, page 600, line 10: "Further. . . "
Dfspasatyasatra signifies "the Sutra in which a candidate, an Upasaka, has seen the Truths. " This refers to the text Divya, 75, or to a similar text: the Blessed One destroyed the false opinion of personalism of the Brahmin Indra, who obtains the result of Srotaapanna:. . . sa dfspasatyah kathayati / atikrdnto'bam bhadantatikrantah (The Pa|i reads abhikkantam . . . ) / eso'ham bhagavantam buddham iaranam gacchdmi dharmam ca bhiksusamgham ca / updsakam ca mam dhdraya adyagrena yavajjivam pranoptetam iaranam gatam abhfprasannam (Edition: gatam /. abhiprasanno'thendro brdhmana. . . ; same text, Divya, 462, with the best reading).
Saeki says that the DfspasatyasStra is the Sutra of Srona the son of Grhapati (Samyukta, TD 2, p. 6b25): "Srona, having removed all dust, abandoned all defilement, obtained the pure eye of the Law, at the moment when he saw the Law. . . he rose and said to Sariputra, 'I, from today onward, take refuge ? ? . '" Possessors of the eye, candidates for the quality of Upasaka, are the kings Udena and Sona (S, iy. l 13): but they employ the ordinary formula: updsakam mam Bhdradvdjo dhdretu ajjataggepanupetamsaranam gatam, ornittingxhe abhiprasanna of the Sanskrit (On abhiprasanna, see Samyutta, v. 225,378).
126. Such is indeed the meaning of the expression prdnopeta ~ srong dan bsno ba = "risking one's life" = "giving up, abandoning one's life" (Hsiian-tsang). We see in note 112. iii, that this is the interpretation of Buddhaghosa.
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127. Pdnupetam can be explained bypranebhyo'petam, prdnakapetam,prdndtipdtdd$bhyo petam.
This last version "freed from killing, etc" justifies the Vaibhasika doctrine. To say "Know that I am an Upasaka free from killing" is to undertake abstaining from killing.
128. The kuddanukhuddakas do not form part of the precepts, Anguttara, i. 231.
129. See the translation of Samghabhadra's commentary, xxiii. 4, foL 84 and following, in the
Introduction.
Vibhdsd, TD 27, p. 177al6. Some say that taking Refuge in the Buddha is taking refuge in a body
made up of the head, the neck, the stomach, the back, the hands, and the feet of the Tathagata. It is explained then that this body, born of a father and mother, is impure (sasrava) dharmas, and is thus not a locus of refuge: rather, the Refuge is the Aiaiksa dharmas oi the Buddha whichformBodhi, the dharmakaya. Some say that taking Refuge in the Dharma is to take refuge in the Three Truths of [Suffering, Arising, and the Path]; or in the good, bad, and neutral dharmas, etc; or in the rules imposed upon the Bhiksus: "One should do this, one should not do that" It is explained then that all these dharmas are conditioned {samskrta) and impure; that they are thus not the refuge; and that the Refuge is solely the Truth of Extinction (nirvdhasatya), the end of thirst, NirvSna.
Some say that taking Refuge in the Sangha is to take refuge in the Sangha of Pravrajitas of the
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four castes {ssu-hsmg ch'u-chiaJBt&tti ^). It is then explained that the attitudes (ityapatha), etc
dharmas which make up the Sangha.
130. The designation "Buddha" also refers to other dharmas, and other gunas, but not principally so (apradhanyena).
131. This is the dharmakaya, vii. 34; Museon, 1913, p. 266.
132. Hsiian-tsang: rupadikaya. See vii. 31. 133. Vydkky&Lmkikamdi^asyapunya^ vilaksana tvM tulyatvat.
? Vibhdsd, TD 27, p. 177c21. If one takes Refuge in a Buddha, the refuge will be partial; and if one takes Refuge in all the Buddhas, why does one say: "I take Refuge in the Buddha," and not "in all the Buddhas? ". . . To take Refuge in the Buddha is to take Refuge in all the Buddhas whose number exceeds that of the sands of the Ganges. . . The word "Buddha" embraces all of the Buddhas, because they are of the same species. When one takes Refuge in the Sangha, is this to take refuge in one disciple of the Buddha or in all of them? . . .
134. Vibhdsd, TD 27, p. 178a24, quotes the same text: tatra bhagavdms trapusabhallikau vanijav dmantrayate sma / eteyuvdm buddham iaranam gauhatam / dhannam ca /yo'sau bhavisyaty andgate'dhvani samgho noma tarn apt iaranam gauhatam. (Excerpt from the Introduction to the Sanghabhedavastu of which a fragment, discovered in Turkestan [(Miran)], has been published in JRAS. 1913, p. 850). Compare Mahdvagga, i. 4; Mahdvastu, iii. 304; Lalita, p. 386; Dulva, iv. 54b. Numerous variants.
135. Many opinions, Vibhdsd, TD 27, p. 177cL
136. Dhammapada 188-192; Uddnavarga, xxvii. 28-30; Divydvaddna, p. 164; Vibhdsd, TD 27, p.
177a4.
137. We have bahum ve saranamyanti. . . ; Divya: bahavah iaranam ydnti, which Paramartha
translates. The Tibetan Uddnavarga has phal-cher.
138. Khema, Divya: iresfha; Uddnavarga and the principal Chinese versions.
139. Vydkhyd' Akriyaydm akarane ntyama ekdntatd akrrydntyamah / so'karanasamvarah akara- nalaksanahsamvarah/ nasamdddnikahsamvaraityarthaJh/ sacaSautrdntikanayendvasthdviiesa eva/ Vaibhdsikanayena tu iUdngam avijnaptir iti
See above note 24, some references to the Pali sources, setughdtavirati = samuuhedavirati, sampattavirati, samdddnavirati; p. 48, the distinction between samdddnaiua and dbarmatdprd- tHambhikaiua.
The Abhidhamma has many points of similarity with the Abhidharma, but the correspondence is not perfect.
The Vaibhasikas attribute pure samvara, or restraint, to an Aryan (iv. l7c); this samvara is not simply akarana, but a certain rupa, avijfiapti, a setu (see note 24); the Sautrantikas do not admit the existence of avijfiapti: for them the series of the Aryan has become incapable of certain actions (see note 145), the seeds of these actions having been eliminated: akaranasamvara, an immovable avijfiapti which the Vaibhasikas postulate, is not a thing in and of itself but is akriyaydm ekdntatd, a certain abstention resulting from a transformation of the personality.
140. Hsiian-tsang: "They have not, with respect to the series of all beings, said, "I renounce incontinence. '" Paramartha: "They have not, with respect to this series (asmdt samtdndt), said, 1 renounce
141. Hsiian-tsang translates: "If lying is authorized, he would transgress all the rules. Having transgressed the rules, at the time when he is interrogated,--if lying has been authorized,--he would say, 1 have not done it,' and because of this there would be many transgressions of the rules. Also the Blessed One, desiring that one uphold the rules, places the renouncing of lying in all of the rules, asking, 'How could an Upasaka, if he violates the rule, declare it himself and prevent new transgressions? '"
Compare the Sutra to Rahula on lying, Majjhbna, 1415; the edict of Bhabra. 0
142. Pratiksepanasdvadya,pratisedha? ,prajnapti,inoppositiontowhatisatransgressionbyits very nature or prafertisdvadya. This is transgression of one who does a forbidden action, because he does not respect the law (idsana) of the Blessed One (iv. l22c).
143. On jalogi, see ConcUes bouddhiques, Muston, 1905, p. 290; Levi,/^j. 1912, ii. p. 508.
144. The text is quoted in the Vydkhyd: Mdm idstdram uddiiabdhih kuidgrendpi madyam na patavyam. In Divya, 191, we have: mdm bho bhiksavah idstdram uddiiabdhir madyam apeyam
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adeyamantatahkuidgrendpi,whichSpeyercorrectstouddifya[bhavajdbhir. . . Huber,Sourcesdu Divya, BEFEO, 1906,31, sanctions this correction, and shows the relation of the Dwya with the 79th prdyaicittika.
The Blessed One not only forbids strong liquor in inebriating quantities (madantya). For the sick Upasaka who consents to eat dog meat but not to drink wine, and who quotes the "Sutra of the House," see Sutrdlamkdra, Huber, 434. Chavannes, Cinq cents contres, iii. 14.
Four upakkilesas: surdmerayapana, methuna, jdtarupa, and micchajiva {Anguttara, ii. 53, AtthasdUni, 380).
145. See above p. 604. If one puts milk mixed with alcohol into their mouths, the milk would enter their mouths, but not the alcohol, Sumangalavildsini, p. 305.
146. Mdo (Csoma), xxvi, 425.
147. Four kdyaduicaritas, killing, stealing, forbidden sex, and surdmaireyapramddasthdna. Alcohol
is missing from the classical lists of the kdyaduicaritas, Mahdvyutpatti, 91, etc
148. Hsuan-tsang translates: "because, by reason of the transgression of this rule, one would commit a transgression which is by its nature a transgressioa" The Vydkhyd says: If drunk but once, strong liquor is mortal {vyasambhavet\ for the Blessed One said: trim sthdndnipratisevamdnasya ndsti trptir vd alamtd vd parydptir vd / madyam abrahmacaryam stydnamiddham ceti. Same teaching in Anguttara, 1261 {soppassa bhikkhave papisevandya natthi titti, surdmerayapdnassa. . . , methunadhammasamdpattiyd. . . ).
149. The same quantity of madya is madaniya or non-madantya depending upon circumstances. 150. The five balas of the&aiksas are iraddhd, virya, hri, apatrdpya, andprajfid. The order differes in
Anguttara, 111. 1.
151. Vydkhyd: Yadi hrhnattvdt tadanadhydcaranam ajfidtam udakddwat kasmdn na pibanti.
152. The Nandikasutra says: surdmakeyafnadyapramddasthdnendsevitena bhdvitena bahuUkftena kdyasya bheddn narakesupapadyate. Compare Digha, 111182: suramerayapramadafthananuyogo apdyaniko; the same forf&appamddafphdna.
153. Digha, iii. 195,235, Anguttara, iii. 212, Samyutta, ii. 167.
154. Notes of Palmyr Cordier.
a) Surd = anndsava. Vydkhyd: Anndsava iti tandulakrtah. Rice beer or alcohoL This is what
Hemadri says ad Aspdngahrdaya 1. 5. 67: fdlipispakrtam madyam. This is also confirmed by the VaiduryakabhasyaortheautOcommentaryofVagbhata,wheresurd='bru-chan=gro-chan,cereal beer, wheat beer, grain alcohol, in conformity with the Mahdvyutpatti, 23036 where surd = 'bru'i chan (Amarakofa, 2. 10. 39, surd = chaw).
Surd = arrack or raki (rice aquavit, a Persian word Sanskritized under the form of akra, a word which is missing, in this sense, in non-medical dictionaries).
b) Maireya = dravydsava (rdzas las sbyar ba'i btun bo) - tafia. Vydkhyd: Dravydsava itikssurasadikrtah.
According to Arunadatta's commentary on the Aspdngahrdaya, 1. 7. 40, maireya=kharjUrdsava ~ alcohol from dates. The Vaiduryakabhasya explains bu ram chan = rum or tafia; whereas Candranandana (Paddrthacandrikd) and Hemadri say dhanydsava = alcohol from grains. Mahdvyutpatti,250. 58, sbyar ba'i chan; Amarakoia, 2. 10. 42, makes maireya the synonym of dsava {me-tog chan), a liqueur from flowers (of Lythrum fruticosum, etc) and of sldhu {bur chan); rum, tafia.
c) PUgaphalakodravddayo'pi . . . Vydkhyd: Adifabdena nispdvddayo'pi grhyante [MSS. 0
nesydva ].
PUgaphala, arecanut(arecacathecu,palm). Sanskritsynonyms,pugiphala =kramuka=pohala=
guvdka. Mahdvyutpatti,231-34,Pugaphala-glagorsho ia-kramuka,Aspdngahrdaya,4M25 and ? nighanpu, 121. Amarakoia, 3v4/3. 21 goyu.
? Kodrava, tsi-tsi, Asfdnganighantu, 198; Sarat Candra, tsi tse tsi tsi; Mahavyutpatti, 228. 14 ci thse. Nispava, common lablab (a type of bean). Missing in the Mahavyutpatti and, at least in the botanical sense, in the Amarakosa.
155. According to the Vaibhasikas, the preparation, the chief action and the consecutive action of undertakingthePrdtimoksadiscipline(iv. 69c-d)haverespectivelyfortheirpurposeto"bind"the preparation, the chief action and the action consecutive to murder, etc The preparation of the Prdtimoksa considers the preparation of killing, to which it is opposed, and says to it in some manner: "I bind you (samvrnomi); do not arise! "
156. An important point in the theory of the existence of the past and the future, v. 25 (see also i. 34d, trans, p. 99).
157. Compare Yogasutra, ii. 31. We see, Divya, p. 10, that the butcher of sheep, taking up the obligation of morality (sHasamdddna) for the night, obtains great benefits: a daytime hell, a nocturnal paradise.
158. The Tibetan has: "relative to former beings who, having become Buddhas, have entered into Nirvana. "
159. 'To kill sheep"; to kill is translated by gsod.
"Elephant-driver," ndgabandhakd hastipakdh (Vydkhyd). dan po che 'chor ba or 'thser ba,
"he who hunts with an elephant, who torments an elephant" (compare the gaddhabddhin of CuUavagga, L32).
"Slaughterer of fowl," kukkufdn ghnantiti kaukkufikdh, (Vydkhyd); compare Mahavyutpatti, 286. 93, khyi 'chor ba or 'thser ba: "he who hunts with dogs, who torments dogs" through confusion of kukkura with kukkufa (? ).
Vdgurika, according to Mahavyutpatti, 186. 92 (rgyas 'chor ba = he who hunts with a net) and Amarakoia, 2. 10. 27 (vdgurd=ridvags'dzin= mrgabandhini;vdgurika = bya brffiba =jdlika = bya rgya pa) which means "poacher, trapper. " But the Vydkhyd makes an animal of vdgurd:pampd (? ) noma prdnijdtir vdgurdkhydtdm ghnantiti vdgurikdh and the Tibetan version transcribes (ba gu ri
'chor ba).
Compare the lists of Anguttara, L251, iL207, iii. 303,383.
160. Chavannes, Cinq cents contres et apologues, iii. p. 117, no. 415 (TD 4, number 203).
161. Paramartha: "One obtains lack of restraint in two ways: through personal action, and through
approval"
162. See iv. 4lc-d
163. According to the Chinese versions. The orginal has: "I shall constantly give food for a day, a month, a fortnight (tithibhakta, ardhamdsabhakta).
Vydkhyd: Adiiabdena mandalakaranddi grhyate (see below note 182). 164. Compare Mahdvagga, ii. 36. 1, etc; Pdrdjika, i. 8. 2.
165. Mahdvyupatti, 266. 16. Patanty aneneti pataniyam. These are the four Pdrdjikas: unchastity, stealing of a certain importance (yathoktapramdnam adattdddnam), killing of a human being (manusyavadha\ and lying relative to one's supernatural powers (uttamnanusyadharmamfsdvdda) (Finot, . M. r. 1913, ii. 476). See some instructive glosses in Wieger, Bouddhisme chinois, I p. 215 (1910). On the word Pdrdjika, see S. Levi? Mj. 1912, ii. 505, and Wogifosu&,Bodhisattvabhami, p. 36.
166. The Vydkhyd mentions an argument taken from Scripture. It says in the Vinaya: "An immoral (duhiUa) monk who gives advice (anuidsti) to a nun commits (dpadyate) a samghdvas'esa transgression. " Now "immoral" means "guilty of a Pdrdjika," for the text opposes a. prakrtisthah
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fUavanmovk to an immoral monk. Thus the monk guilty of a Pardpka remains a monk, since he can be rendered guilty of a samghdvaiesa. Vinaya uktam /^duhsllai ced bhiksur bhiksunim anuidsti
samgbdvas'esamapadyata Hi / Spannapardpko hi bhiksur duhfilo'bbipreto ndndpantiapdrdjikab prakrtisthab Mavan Hi viparyayepa vacandt / ato'vagamyate / asty asya duffsHasydpi sato bhiksubhavo yasmdt samghdvafesam apadyata ity uktam Hi
167. This text (the SarvSstivadin Vinaya In Ten Recitations, TD 23, p. 157a7-b2) has passed into Mahdvyutpatti 278: abbiksub aframanah, afdkyaputftyaff, dhvasyate bhikfubhdpdt, hatam asya bhavati frdmanyam mathHam patHam pardjHam, apratyuddhdryam asya bhavati irdmanyam, tadyathd tdlo mastakacchhmo'bhavyo haritatvdya / duhillab papadharmo'ntahp&ir avasmtak kafambakajdtafc.
Compare KsHigarbhas&ra in Siksasamuccaya, p. 67. On kaiambaka, below p. 615.
168. All the editions of the Mahdvyutpatti, 270. 37-40.
169. The regularly ordained Bhiksu (jn^pticaturthopasampanna), 270. 41.
Samghabhadra (TD 29, p. 557cl4) recalls that there are five samghas: 1. samgha with modesty,
2. samgha of speechless sheep, 3. samgha of followers (p'eng-tang J$|? ) 4. samgha in the popular meaning of the word (lokasamvrtisamgha = sammutisamgha), and 5. samgha in the proper sense of the word (paramdrthasamgha = dakkhineyyasamgha).
170. Compare Pdrdjika, 18. 1:.
