Dear Jim (or any Palista),

Further to your comment on abhiññājhāna. I have come across another case.
I wonder if in this commentarial gloss, we could take it as a taddhita
meaning
something like "jhana-based superknowledge" or do you think it should always
be a dvandva?

Jhānavisayoti abhiññājhānavisayo. (AA 3:108)

This is from the short Acinteyya Sutta (A 4.77).

With metta,

Piya

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Jim Anderson <jimanderson.on@...>wrote:

> Dear Piya,
>
> I thought 'vinaa' was constructed only with the instrumental but
> 'jhaanaabhiññaa' is not in the instrumental case. However, I see in Apte's
> Skt. dictionary that 'vinaa' can be constructed with the accusative and
> ablative in addition to the instrumental. Also, in Kacc 272 we find: "vinaa
> saddhammaa nattha~n~no koci naatho loke vijjati, vinaa saddhamma.m, vinaa
> saddhammena vaa. vinaa buddhasmaa, vinaa buddha.m, vinaa buddhena vaa". So
> perhaps 'jhaanaabhiññaa' is accusative plural? I read 'jhaanaabhiññaa' as a
> dvanda compound, "(without any) superknowledge or jhaana". Might not these
> winged beings be birds?
>
> Best wishes,
> Jim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Piya Tan" <dharmafarer@... <dharmafarer%40gmail.com>>
> To: <Pali@yahoogroups.com <Pali%40yahoogroups.com>>
> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 6:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [Pali] Re: Simu
>
> Dear Pali friends,
>
> This is a new thread. This is an interesting sentence from the
> Pa.tisa,bhidaa,magga Commentary explaining the lemma "Sabbesaṃ pakkhīnan"
> ti
> (in the Iddhikathaa of Pm):
>
> Sabbesaṃ pakkhīnan ti sabbesaṃ pakkhijātānaṃ jhānābhiññā vināyeva ākāsena
> gamanaṃ. (Pm 2:213)
>
> "Of all the winged beings" means all those of the nature of have wings,
> going through the air WITHOUT any superknowledge (or direct knowledge) of
> jhana. (Pm 2:212)
>
> I have taken "vināyeva" as VINAA + EVA, translating as "without any".
>
> This is an interesting section of Pm which summarizes all the iddhis into a
> set of 10. I a working on a Sutta study paper of "Miracles."
>
> Any comments are appreciated. Thanks.
>
> Piya Tan
>
>
>



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