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Buddhacarita by Ven Asvaghosa - Ancient Buddhist Texts

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Buddha-carita, or Life of Buddha - 145<br />

16. ‘O best of hearers, hear this our firmly-settled theory, how our<br />

mortal existence arises and how it revolves.<br />

17. “The evolvent" and "the evolute," birth, old age, and death, –<br />

know that this has been called the reality <strong>by</strong> us; do thou receive our<br />

words, O thou who art stedfast in thy nature.<br />

18. ‘But know, O thou who art deep in the search into the nature of<br />

things, that the five elements, egoism, intellect, and "the<br />

unmanifested" are the "evolvents;"<br />

19. ‘But know that the "evolutes" consist of intellect, external objects,<br />

the senses, and the hands, feet, voice, anus, and generative organ, and<br />

also the mind.<br />

20. ‘There is also a something which bears the name kṣetrajña, from<br />

its knowledge of this "field" (kṣetra or the body); and those who<br />

investigate the soul call the soul kṣetrajña.<br />

21. ‘Kapila with his disciple became the illuminated, – such is the<br />

tradition; and he, as the illuminated, with his son is now called here<br />

Prajāpati.<br />

22. ‘That which is born and grows old and is bound and dies, – is to<br />

be known as "the manifested," and "the unmanifested" is to be<br />

distinguished <strong>by</strong> its contrariety.

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