The Buddha-Carita or The Life of Buddha by Ven. Aśvaghoṣa

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Buddha-carita, or The Life of Buddha - 157 sakhyādibhiramuktaśca nirguṇo na bhavatyayam | tasmādasati nairguṇye nāsya mokṣo ’bhidhīyate || 12.75 (12.77) 75. ‘The soul does not become free from qualities as long as it is not released from number and the rest; therefore, as long as there is no freedom from qualities, there is no liberation declared for it. guṇino hi guṇānā ca vyatireko na vidyate | rūpoṣṇābhyā virahito na hyagnirupalabhyate || 12.76 (12.78) 76. ‘There is no real separation of the qualities and their subject; for fire cannot be conceived, apart from its form and heat. prāgdehānna bhaveddehī prāgguṇebhyastathā guṇī | kasmādādau vimuktaḥ sañśarīrī badhyate punaḥ || 12.77 (12.79) 77. ‘Before the body there will be nothing embodied, so before the qualities there will be no subject; how, if it was originally free, could the soul ever become bound? 1 kṣetrajño viśarīraśca jño vā syādajña eva vā | yadi jño jñeyamasyāsti jñeye sati na mucyate || 12.78 (12.80) 78. ‘The body-knower (the soul) which is unembodied, must be either knowing or unknowing; if it is knowing, there must be some object to be known, and if there is this object, it is not liberated. athājña iti siddho vaḥ kalpitena kimātmanā | vināpi hyātmanājñāna prasiddha kāṣṭhakuḍyavat || 12.79 (12.81) 79. ‘Or if the soul is declared to be unknowing, then of what use to you is this imagined soul? Even without such a soul, the existence of the absence of knowledge is notorious as, for instance, in a log of wood or a wall. parataḥ paratastyāgo yasmāttu guṇavān smtaḥ | tasmātsarvaparityāgānmanye ktsnā ktārthatām || 12.80 (12.82) 80. ‘And since each successive abandonment is held to be still accompanied by qualities, I maintain that the absolute attainment of our end can only be found in the abandonment of everything.’ iti dharmamarāḍasya viditvā na tutoṣa saḥ | aktsnamiti vijñāya tataḥ pratijagāma ha || 12.81 (12.83) 81. Thus did he remain unsatisfied after he had heard the doctrine of Arāḍa; then having decided it to be incomplete, he turned away. 1 I read kasmāt for tasmāt.
Buddha-carita, or The Life of Buddha - 158 viśeṣamatha śuśrūṣurudrakasyāśrama yayau | ātmagrāhācca tasyāpi jaghe na sa darśanam || 12.82 (12.84) 82. Seeking to know the true distinction, he went to the hermitage of Udraka, 1 but he gained no clear understanding from his treatment of the soul. sajñāsajñitvayordoṣa jñātvā hi munirudrakaḥ | ākicinyātpara lebhe sajñāsajñātmikā gatim || 12.83 (12.85) 83. For the sage Udraka, having learned the inherent imperfections of the name and the thing named, took refuge in a theory beyond Nihilism, which maintained a name and a non-name. yasmāccālabane sūkṣme sajñāsajñe tataḥ param | nāsajñī naiva sajñīti tasmāttatra gatasphaḥ || 12.84 (12.86) 84. And since even a name and a non-name were substrata, however subtil, he went even further still and found his restlessness set at rest in the idea that there is no named and no un-named; yataśca buddhistatraiva sthitānyatrāpracāriṇī | sūkṣmāpādi tatastatra nāsajñitva na sajñitā || 12.85 (12.87) 85. And because the intellect rested there, not proceeding any further, — it became very subtil, and there was no such thing as un-named nor as named. yasmācca tamapi prāpya punarāvartate jagat | bodhisattvaḥ para prepsustasmādudrakamatyajat || 12.86 (12.88) 86. But because, even when it has reached this goal it yet returns again to the world, therefore the Bodhisattva, seeking something beyond, left Udraka. tato hitvāśrama tasya śreyo ’rthī ktaniścayaḥ | bheje gayasya rājarṣernagarīsajñamāśramam || 12.87 (12.89) 87. Having quitted his hermitage, fully resolved in his purpose, and seeking final bliss, he next visited the hermitage, called a city, of the royal sage Gaya. atha nairajanātīre śucau śuciparākramaḥ | cakāra vāsamekātavihārābhivratī muniḥ || 12.88 (12. 90) 88. Then on the pure bank of the Nairañjanā the saint whose every effort was pure fixed his dwelling, bent as he was on a lonely habitation. 1 Cf. Burnouf, Introd. p. 386 n. It is written Rudraka in XV, 89.
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