Wynn,

devolve (contracts) = viva.t.tati
evolve (expands) = sa.mva.t.tati

P.

wynn wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Can you check for me the Pali word for CONTRACTS and EXPANDS in the sutta quoted below. Some translations gave PASSES AWAY and REEVOLVE.
>
> ====
>
> Agganna Sutta
>
> Now there comes a time, Vasettha, when after a long period of
> time this world contracts. When the world contracts beings are for the most
> part born in the realm of Radiance There they exist made of mind, feeding on
> joy, self-luminous, moving through the air, constantly beautiful; thus they
> remain for a long, long time. Now there comes a time, Vasettha, when after a
> long period of time this world expands. When the world expands beings for
> the most part fall from the realm of Radiance and come here [to this realm];
> and they exist made of mind, feeding on joy, self-luminous, moving through
> the air, constantly beautiful; thus they remain for a long, long time.
>
> ====
>
> Another translation:
>
> There comes a time, Vâseþþha, when, sooner or later, after the lapse of
> a long, long period, this world passed away. And when this happens, beings have
> mostly been reborn in the World of Radiance; and there they dwell, made of
> mind, feeding on rapture, self-luminous, traversing the air, continuing in glory;
> and thus they remain for a long, long period of time. There comes also a time,
> Vâseþþha, when sooner or later this world begins to re-evolve. When this happens,
> beings who had deceased from the World of Radiance, usually come to life
> as humans.
>
> ======
>
> Brahmajala Sutta
>
> Now there comes a time, brethren, when, sooner or later, after the lapse of
> a long long period, this world-system passes away. ..... Now there comes
> also a time, brethren, when, sooner or later, this world-system begins to
> re-evolve.
>
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