Hi Dmytro,
I've been looking at the grammar of the following Mūlaṭīkā sentence you quoted:
Kasiṇanimittaṃ viya saññāṇaṃ viya saviggahaṃ viya ca suṭṭhu upalakkhetabbākāraṃ ‘‘nimittan’ti vuccati.
I'm wondering why "upalakkhetabbākāraṃ" isn't in the nominative case (-ākāro) in agreement with "vuccati". If it's not the subject, then where is it? The sentence that comes after "vuccati" is: Samatho ca evaṃ ākāroti ‘‘nimitta’’nti vutto. One possibility might be that the "samatho" in the Aṭṭhasālinī comment is understood to be the subject of vuccati and " upalakkhetabbākāraṃ" is an adjectival compound modifying "nimittaṃ".
Best wishes, Jim
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Subject: [palistudy] Samathanimitta
Dear Pali friends,
I am struggling with some Pali passages which are important for my research on Samatha training methods.
Commentary to Sangiti sutta from Digha Nikaya and to Dhammasangani states:
Samathova taṃ ākāraṃ gahetvā puna pavattetabbassa samathassa nimittavasena samathanimittaṃ.
The attunement to serenity is an attunement, by power of which one can make serenity to reoccur, having learned [previously] the mode of [attaining] serenity.
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