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Commentary: Chap. 23—24
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It seems rather remarkable that all the Mss. call this chapter
samilo (= samitayah), while D. gives it the name pravaccmamata.
This seems to stand in close connexion to the word pavaiya-
namayao in v. 1 (on which cp. SBE. XLV, p. 129 n. 1), translated
by Jacobi with ’articles of the creed’. Cp. also the explanation
quoted by Weber Ind. Stud. XVII, 47, from which it seems clear
that we have here the word mcitar ’mother’, and that the samiti’s
and gupti’ s are really called the ’mothers of the creed (pravacana)’.
This explanation seems to be taken from the Niry. v. 505, where
we read: atthesu vi samiisu duvalasamgam samoyarai jamhd | tamha
pavayanamdyd ajjhayanam hoi nayavvam || i. e. ’while the twelve
ahga’s are included in the eight samiti’s, this chapter is to be
known (under the name of) Mother of the Creed’.
2. The definitions of the different samiti’s and gupti’s are
given in the translation, SBE. XLV, p. 129 sq.
3. One ought to observe here the notice of twelve ahga’s, which
must have existed at the time of the composition of this chapter.
mayct- here must be = matra-, cp. gay a- = gatrci- &c.
5. uppahavajjie = utpathavarjitah, cp. Set. utpatliavaraka-,
°vcirakatva- Nrs. Up.
6. In v. 4 the Mss. have jayanccya, but here some of them
write jayana. This last form is of course incorrect, as only
jayana can be equivalent to Set. *yatanci (or as well yatna-), while
jayanci would represent Set. yaccma or ycicna. The different senses
of jayana are given by Leumann Aup. S. p. 120; here it means
simply: ’effort’.
8. Cp. SBE. XLV, p. 131 n. 1.
9. According to S. this verse also existed in another (and
apparently worse) recension, viz.:
Icohe mane ya maya ya lobhe ya taheva ya |
hasabhayamoharie viJcaha ya taheva ya ||
11. According to S. there exists another slightly deviating
patha of this verse, viz. :
gavesancie gahanena paribhogesanae ya |
aharam uvahisejjam ee tinni visohae |[
12. The forty-six faults connected with the search &c. for
alms are enumerated in SBE. XLV, p. 131 n. 7.
365
It seems rather remarkable that all the Mss. call this chapter
samilo (= samitayah), while D. gives it the name pravaccmamata.
This seems to stand in close connexion to the word pavaiya-
namayao in v. 1 (on which cp. SBE. XLV, p. 129 n. 1), translated
by Jacobi with ’articles of the creed’. Cp. also the explanation
quoted by Weber Ind. Stud. XVII, 47, from which it seems clear
that we have here the word mcitar ’mother’, and that the samiti’s
and gupti’ s are really called the ’mothers of the creed (pravacana)’.
This explanation seems to be taken from the Niry. v. 505, where
we read: atthesu vi samiisu duvalasamgam samoyarai jamhd | tamha
pavayanamdyd ajjhayanam hoi nayavvam || i. e. ’while the twelve
ahga’s are included in the eight samiti’s, this chapter is to be
known (under the name of) Mother of the Creed’.
2. The definitions of the different samiti’s and gupti’s are
given in the translation, SBE. XLV, p. 129 sq.
3. One ought to observe here the notice of twelve ahga’s, which
must have existed at the time of the composition of this chapter.
mayct- here must be = matra-, cp. gay a- = gatrci- &c.
5. uppahavajjie = utpathavarjitah, cp. Set. utpatliavaraka-,
°vcirakatva- Nrs. Up.
6. In v. 4 the Mss. have jayanccya, but here some of them
write jayana. This last form is of course incorrect, as only
jayana can be equivalent to Set. *yatanci (or as well yatna-), while
jayanci would represent Set. yaccma or ycicna. The different senses
of jayana are given by Leumann Aup. S. p. 120; here it means
simply: ’effort’.
8. Cp. SBE. XLV, p. 131 n. 1.
9. According to S. this verse also existed in another (and
apparently worse) recension, viz.:
Icohe mane ya maya ya lobhe ya taheva ya |
hasabhayamoharie viJcaha ya taheva ya ||
11. According to S. there exists another slightly deviating
patha of this verse, viz. :
gavesancie gahanena paribhogesanae ya |
aharam uvahisejjam ee tinni visohae |[
12. The forty-six faults connected with the search &c. for
alms are enumerated in SBE. XLV, p. 131 n. 7.