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ERRATA age 122, lat line, for ‘more becoming’ ruad ‘ morences” Page 13, lino I, for shereal rund Yieral. Page 161, line 8, for “rightly seeing” rend “right-ocoing Arivan,” baa 7 gh 7 “Tah ening ighi-sesing Ariyan,” be age 168, line 4, for Ho who hata thus gome" read ‘He the Wayfarer.” VERSES OF UPLIFT HONOUR TO THAT EXALTED ONE, ARAHANT, RIGHTLY AWAKENED| Carrer [.—ENLIGHTENMENT. i ‘Tuus heve T heard:! On a certain occasion the Pxalted One was staying at Uruvelé, on the bank of the river Neraiijar& at the foot of the bodhi-tree, having just won the highest wisdom. ‘Now on that oceasion the Fxalted One was seated for seven days in one posture and experienced the bliss of release. Then the Hxalted Une, after the lapse of those seven days, during the first watch of the night, rousing himself from thst concentration of mind, gave close attention to causal uprising In direct order," thus: ‘This being, that hecomes; by the arising of this, that arises, namely: Conditioned by ignorance, activities; conditioned by activities, cusivusuess; conditioned by conscionsness, mind-and-body; conditioned by mind~ and-body, the six sense-spheres; conditioned by the six sunse-npleres, contact; conditioned by contact, feeling; conditioned by feeling, craving; conditioned by eraving, -asping; conditioned by grasping, becoming; conditioned 1y becoming, birth; conditioned by birth, old age and dexth, grief, lamentation, suffering, sorrow and despair come into being. ‘Thus is the arising of this mass of IIL. 1 or ee font four qua gh. Vim i (Mavagpa, 14. or the borhitaee legend off Mrs. Rhys Davids’ A Manual of Buddhism, PG, Mamuat, 16 7, Amiloma, ‘according t the Tie of the baie” (or caw) » Of. Kindred Sayings ii, 1f-5 ye 2 VERSES OF UPLIFT i Thereupon the Exalted One, seeing the meaning of it, at that time gave utterance to this verse of uplift.” In sooth shen things? grow plain to the ardent, musin brian? oe a " His doubis all vanish, since he knows thing-with-its- cause.* ii {Texr 2] Thus have I heard: On a certain occasion. - os (as. choo) easion Then . . . the Exalted One, rousing himself from that concentration of mind, during the middle watch of the night gave close attention to causal uprising in reverse order,* thus: This not being, that becomes not; by the ceasing of this, that ceases to be; namely: By the ceasi uf ignorance, the ceasing of activities; by the ceasmg of activities, the ceasing of consciousness; by the ceasing of conscioumess, the ceasing of mind-and-body; by the ccasing of mind-and-budy, the ceasing of the six sense- spheres; by the ceasing of the six sense-spheres, the ceasing of contact; by the ceasing of contact, the ceasing of fecling:; by the ceasing of fecling, the ceasing uf uraving: by the ceasing of craving, the ceasing of grasping; by the ceasing of grasping, the ceasing of becoming; by the ceas- ing of hecaming, the ceasing of birth; by the ccasing of birth, old age and death, grief, lamentation, suffering, sorrow and despair come to cease. Thus is the ceasing of this mass of Il. Thereupon the Exalted One, seeing the meaning of it, gave utterance to this verse of uplift: In sooth when things grow plain to the ardent, musing _ brakmin, His doubts all vanish, since he knows the wane of causes.* Fur che Pall vere of wplift soe Pre + Diiammd, phases of mature; bot teanlated at Eeponiorj “ane docrne stewie By Not, of course, by esate merely, but as at Dhamnc xi. + Sehewdhamney, * padesch * Paton. 4 Paceaye, in the excl literature equivalent to hetu 1, i) ENLIGHTENMENT ii 2] Thus have I heard: On a certain occasion the plthed One®” “(ae tn fa). Then. the Bxalved One . . . during the last watch of the night gave close attention to causal uprising both in direct and in reverse order, tirus: This being, thet becomes; by the arising of this, that arises. This not being, that is not; by the ceasing of this, that ceases, namely: Conditioned by orance. . . (as in § i). ‘Thus is the arising of this mass of Lil. But by the utter fading out and ceasi of ignorance, the ceasing of activities . . . (az in § ii). ‘Thus is the ending of this macs of II]. 3] Thereupon the Exalted One, seeing the meaning of it, at that time gave utterance to this verse of uplift: In sooth when idings yrow plain to the anion, musing brahmin, Routing the host of Just us the sun iv Thus have I heard: On a certain occasion the Exalted One was staying at Uruveld, on the bank of the river Neraijard, under Gostherds’ Banyan, having just von the highest vvisdom. Now on that occasion the Fevalte One was seated for seven days in one posture and experi- enced the bliss of release. ‘Then the Exalted One, after the lapee of those seven days, roused himself from that concensration of mind. a ‘Now a certain bréhmin of the Hubunka-jati, of a carping natare,' came to where the Fxalted One was ‘and on reaching him greeted him courteously, and after 1 Huhunkaatita, DA. followed by ‘has * huhun ’ t karonto sicerti,*pors about sniffing (eult-ndieg, eeumbling)” Ud. also er peidestife’ In P28, 1897-1901, p42, Hardy bas * putting confidence in te seund fag.) Dr, B, Ht Johnstone also thinks it Iyer to “confidence ritalin! Aner reading ie Juludee Mes, Rhys Davids of opinion that itahould be Suaubta, ‘Thame of ¢ school cr clan of brBbrics (. Mana, p84), but later forporten, “Tn such ease the word below in the paths ni-fukamka Wil hove led to the substitution in the text of hunks for susukée, 4 VERSES OF UPLIFT) Civ the exchange of gteetings and courtdsies, stood at one side, “As he thus stood that brdhmin suid this to the rata master Cotga, ‘oftig extent is one a rahmin ? And again, What ate the things which con- stitute a brihmin 7%. % va av Thereupon the ExaltedOhe| it, at that time gave utterance't A brakmin, who has harredlon A man of lruraph and ps Who has the self comiro! Who lives the Brahma life, His is the Brahma-foith,* No false excrescencas? in oll el ‘Thus have I heard: On a certain occasion the Exalted One was staying near Sivatthigat Jeta Grove in Andtha- ika's Park. Now on that occasion the venerable Saripatta, Mogyelline the Great, Kassapa the Great, Kaceayana the Great, Kétshita the Great, Kappina the Great, Cunda the Great, also the venerable Anuruddha, Revata® Devadatta and Ananda, came to where the Exalted One was ff] And the Exalted One saw those venerable ones from afar as they came, and at the sight of shem aaid to the monks: ‘Monks, these are brihmins coming, these are brahmins coming ! hese words a certain monk, a bralunin by birth, ir to the Halted One: * Pray, sit, to what extent Al is one a brahmin, and what are tl stitute a brahmin ?” things which con- imaxa-taraka, but Vin i, 3 abd Uda. -karana. 2 The verses are Mrs, Rhys Devide, Monual, 85. 2 Rahita-papa, s traditional and fanciful etymology of brahmaya, Of, Dip. 388 and next git « Brakma-vaday vedeyy say: Lam a brohinin” § Uceada, moral‘ warts.” *uch as riga, deca, mrha, mina, ditthi.” Gomy, A Te, hth who i onus sealed kana ' Revata, the acacis-grove dweller, not Revatathedoubter, Comy. vomy. takes it to mean ‘ean justly La ENLIGHTENMENT 5 Then the Exalted One, seeing the meaning of it, at that time gave utterance to this verse of uplift Barring out evil things, wha ener mindful fare Avwakened, bond-free,—such in the world are surely brahmins. vi Thus have I heard: On a certain occasion the Exalted One was staying near Rajegaha, in Bamboo Grove, at the Squirrel? Feeding-ground. ‘Now on that occasion the venerable Kassepe the Great was staying at Figtree Grotto,’ being sick, afflicted, stricken with a sore disease. Later on the venerable ‘Kassapa the Great rote up from that sickness. On doing so this thought occurred to him: What if I were to enter Risjegaha for alme-quest 7 ‘Thereupon as mary as five hundred devas eagerly busied themselves about the alms-food of the venerable Kassapa the Great* Ritt the venerable Kassapa tho Great rejecied their services, and robing himself in the forenoon took bowl and robe and entercd Rajagaha by way of the streets where dwelt the poor and needy, the woavers’ quarter. ‘Now the Exalted One saw the venerable Kassapa the Great questing for alms in thet quarter. ‘Then the Exalted One, seeing the meaning of it, at that time gave utterance to this veree of uplift: Who hath none else to keep,? who is unknown, Who is subdued ond fired in the core,* In thom the cankers are destroyed, the taints Spued forth,—'tis him I call a brahmana. 7 Gf Sv, 18; KS. v, 66 (whore T wrongly trans. as‘ Pepper tree Grotio’). On this occtsion he was restored to health on hearing from the Master talk on the seven limbs of wisdom 2 Of. Ua, p. 2. + dnoffapeein. Cf. Bn. v, 65; infr. IIL, 18. Comy.—ekapos, mnattended oy another (whois) to be mpported by oneself” “ apadien, But ablitian ace, to Com, ‘retognized for bi qualities” which, however, adds athavd altanay janépana-vatena no Ratan. SBarethe pith or emonee, Coy. vimutt-sie.

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