Re: Passage from MA iii.198

> Is it then, perhaps, that the Buddha rejects the 'na upapajjati'
> alternative
> (on grounds of an erroneous nihilistic interpretation on Vaccha's
> part): he
> thinks, 'let's not give Vaccha an easy way out of this' (as Bryan
> suggested); so, on this ground of not sanctioning any way out of this,
> sanction was denied.
>
It seems to me that the 'pi gives a clue, that we're talking about two
different allowances... it seems to me that, given the syntax,
"ananuññāya ṭhatvā" is refering to the quotation directly before it:

tasmā bhagavā "ayaṃ appatiṭṭho anālambo hotu, sukhapavesanaṭṭhānaṃ mā
labhatū"ti ananuññāya ṭhatvā anuññampi paṭikkhipi.

Therefore, the Blessed One, having stood for the following (iti)
non-allowance: (iti) "may this one be of no support, of no holding; may
he gain no place for the attainment of ease!" refused the allowance [of
the view] as well (pi).


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