Re: Question on Sabhiya sutta commentary

Dear Lance,

Thanks for the suggestion; it is a slightly different twist to Khristos' and Petra's suggestion (where sitāni modifies the gerundive) but has a similar meaning I think. I agree that satthāni must come from Skt. śāstrāni,


Metta, Bryan




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  From: L.S. Cousins <selwyn@...>
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Subject: Re: [palistudy] Question on Sabhiya sutta commentary


 
Bryan et al.,

I would be inclined to interpret satthāni here as equivalent to Sanskrit
śāstra 'treatise'. Sitāni here is taken from Sn 538 where it is clearly
a poetic variant on nissita. So I would translate:

because these <fixed views> are dependent on the treatises which are the
teachings of ascetics belonging to other faiths by virtue of having to
be expounded by them rather than by virtue of arising <naturally>

Lance Cousins

> Dear Friends,
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> I have been trying to understand verse 538 in the Sabhiya sutta (Sutta Nipaata) which reads:
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> “yaani ca tii.ni yaani ca sa.t.thi, sama.nappavaadasitaani bhuuripa~n~na.
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> sa~n~nakkharasa~n~nanissitaani, osara.naani vineyya oghatamagaa.
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> especially the compound sa~n~na-akkhara-sa~n~na-nissitaani,
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> Norman translates (Group of Discourses), 65:
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> One of great wisdom, you have gone [over] the darkness of the flood, having dispelled the three and sixty heresies, which are dependent upon the utterances of ascetics and dependent upon perceptions and conventions of perceptions.
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> The word sa~n~naa here seems to be more related to "names" or "conceptions, ideas" per the commentary (PJ II 2, 434):
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> eva.m pa~nhabyaakara.nena tu.t.thassa pana sabhiyassa “yaani ca tii.nii”tiaadiisu abhitthavanagaathaasu osara.naaniiti ogaha.naani titthaani, di.t.thiyoti attho. taani yasmaa sakkaayadi.t.thiyaa saha brahmajaale vuttadvaasa.t.thidi.t.thigataani gahetvaa tesa.t.thi honti, yasmaa ca taani a~n~natitthiyasama.naana.m pavaadabhuutaani satthaani sitaani upadisitabbavasena, na uppattivasena. uppattivasena pana yadeta.m “itthii puriso”ti sa~n~nakkhara.m vohaaranaama.m, yaa caaya.m micchaaparivitakkaanussavaadivasena “evaruupena attanaa bhavitabban”ti baalaana.m vipariitasa~n~naa uppajjati, tadubhayanissitaani tesa.m vasena uppajjanti, na attapaccakkhaani. taani ca bhagavaa vineyya vinayitvaa oghatamagaa oghatama.m oghandhakaara.m agaa atikkanto. “oghantamagaa”tipi paa.tho, oghaana.m anta.m agaa, tasmaa aaha “yaani ca tii.ni … pe … tamagaa”ti.
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> which I tentatively tranlsate as
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> In
> this way, with the answering of the questions of the satisfied Sabhiya, he said yāni
> ca tini, etc. in respect of these gāthās of praise. “osaraṇāni ” are the heresies
> of the sects, their beliefs – that is the meaning. These (heresies), because they have taken
> the 62 views described in the Brahmajāla
> sutta, together with the view of individual, number sixty-three, and
> because they  are dependent (sitāni)  on the teachings (satthāni), produced by the discussions of the ascetics and members
> of other sects, on account of that which is to be  taught  (by them? upadisitabba-vasena), they are not uppattivasena (arisen by themselves?
> lit: “on account of coming forth”). But  that which does arise by itself is the name
> and expression vohaarananaama.m), the conception and the name (sa~n~nkkhara.m), that is  “woman, man”, which arises as an inverted
> perception/conception of fools, who think “Of such a form [man or woman] the self must be”
> because of [the force of     past ] tradition and false mental conception, etc., - because
> of these, dependencies on both of these things arise, which are not realized by/evident
> to the self. These (afflictions) the Blessed One has put away. He has gone over
> the darkness of the flood, oghan-tam’-agā  (aghantamagā)
> is another reading, he has gone to the end of the flood.”
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> My question is - what does upadistabbavasena mean and how does it fit into the syntax of the sentence? Same for uppattiyavasena?
> upadistabba is the future passive participle of upadisati to teach, point out, so means "to be taught," or "to be pointed out" and vasena is the normal adverb for "on account of" or because. uppatti, means "coming forth, origin, product."
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> I think I understand the gist of the argument which is that most wrong views are made through discussion, and only one wrong view - the view of the personality or self, arises on its own because of the use of language to name things. However, I'm not sure what the two compounds with -vasena mean and how they fit into the grammatical structure.
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> Any help would be appreciated,
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> Metta, Bryan
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