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Triṃśikā (Vasubandhu) with Sthiramati's bhāṣya · 7
yatrajas tanmayair arhato na tat | na nirodhasamāpattau mārge lokottare na ca
Translation. Wherever that afflicted mind is born,
it is associated with the [four] afflictions (kleśa) belonging to that very realm (dhātu) or level (bhūmi).
For a Worthy One (arhat), that afflicted mind (kliṣṭa-manas) does not exist;
nor is it present during the attainment of cessation (nirodhasamāpatti),
nor on the supramundane path (lokottaramārga).
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Word by word
| surface | lemma | grammar |
|---|
| yatrajaḥ | yatraja | pass |
| tanmayaiḥ | tanmaya | pass |
| arhataḥ | arhat | pass |
| na | na | pass |
| tat | tad | pass |
| na | na | pass |
| nirodhasamāpattau | nirodhasamāpatti | pass |
| mārge | mārga | pass |
| lokottare | lokottara | pass |
| na | na | pass |
| ca | ca | pass |
How the commentary settled it
Where the verse alone is ambiguous, the reading follows Sthiramati's commentary; the deciding lines are quoted below each decision.
Parse yatrajas as the single compound yatrajaḥ, ‘born wherever,’ rather than as the two words yatra and jaḥ.→ The compound yatrajaḥ, nominative masculine singular, with the commentary’s exact vigraha yatra jātaḥ.
trbh [427]yatra jāto yatrajaḥ
‘Born wherever’ is yatrajaḥ.
Understand tanmayaiḥ not as ‘made of/identical with that,’ but as ‘belonging to that same realm or level’; construe its instrumental with the supplied verb saṃprayujyate.→ The afflicted mind is associated with the relevant afflictions belonging to precisely the realm (dhātu) or level (bhūmi) in which it arises.
trbh [428, 429, 430, 431]tanmayair iti yatra dhātau bhūmau vā jātas
taddhātukais tadbhūmikair eva ca saṃprayujyate
nānyadhātukair anyabhūmikair
vā
As for tanmayaiḥ: in whatever realm or level it is born, it is associated only with those belonging to that realm or level, not with those belonging to another realm or level.
trbh [432, 433, 434, 435, 436]kiṃ punaś caturbhir eva kleśaiḥ saṃprayujyate
nety āha
anyaiḥ sparśādyaiś ca
saṃprayujyata iti saṃbadhyate
caśabdaḥ samuccayārthaḥ
‘But is it associated only with the four afflictions?’ No, he says: ‘and with other factors such as contact.’ ‘It is associated’ is to be syntactically supplied; ca expresses addition.
Take arhataḥ as a relational genitive, ‘for a Worthy One,’ and tat as nominative neuter referring to afflicted mind, with ‘exists’ understood.→ For an arhat, the afflicted mind is wholly absent because the afflictions have been abandoned.
trbh [452, 453, 454]arhato na tat
na nirodhasamāpattau mārge lokottare na ca
arhatas tāvad aśeṣakleśaprahāṇāt kliṣṭaṃ mano naivāsti
‘For an arhat, that does not exist; nor in the attainment of cessation, nor on the supramundane path.’ To begin with, for an arhat afflicted mind simply does not exist, because all afflictions have been abandoned.
trbh [458]tad anyakleśavad arhattvāvasthāyān naiva vidyate
Like the other afflictions, it is entirely absent in the state of arhatship.
Read na nirodhasamāpattau as denying the presence of afflicted mind during the attainment of cessation, not as denying that such an attainment exists.→ During the attainment of cessation, the afflicted mind ceases; after emergence it begins operating again from the store consciousness.
trbh [459, 460, 461, 462]ākiñcanyāyatanavītarāgasyāpy anāgāmino nirodhasamāpattilābhino mārgabalena
nirodhasamāpatter labhyatvāṃ mārgavan nirodhasamāpattyavasthāyām api
nirudhyate
nirodhāc ca vyutthitasya punar ālayavijñānād eva pravartate
Even for a non-returner who has obtained the attainment of cessation, having become dispassionate toward the sphere of nothingness, it ceases in the state of that attainment, just as on the path; after emergence from cessation, it operates again from the store consciousness alone.
Construe lokottare as a masculine locative adjective modifying mārge and restrict the negation to the supramundane, not the mundane, path.→ The afflicted mind does not operate on the supramundane path, whereas it does operate on a mundane path.
trbh [463, 464, 465, 466]mārge lokottare na ceti
lokottaragrahaṇaṃ laukikavyavacchedārtham
laukike tu mārge kliṣṭaṃ manaḥ
pravartata eva
Regarding ‘nor on the supramundane path’: the word ‘supramundane’ excludes the mundane. On a mundane path, afflicted mind certainly does operate.
trbh [467, 468, 469, 470]nairātmyadarśanasyātmadarśanapratipakṣatvān na lokottaramārge
pravartitum utsaheta
vipakṣapratipakṣayor ayaugapadyāl lokottaramārge tan
nirudhyate
Because insight into selflessness counteracts the view of self, it cannot operate on the supramundane path. Since an opposed factor and its counteragent cannot occur simultaneously, it ceases on that path.