jñāna
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knowledge · pañcajñāna · samyagjñāna · the five wisdoms
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Paramārthasāra
Liberating knowledge, whose arising burns away accumulated karma and ends bondage.
Whatever {{karma|accumulated action}} was heaped up before the arising of {{jñāna|liberating knowledge}}, [once] licked by the flame-tongue of the fire of knowledge, becomes — like a seed scorched by fire — no longer capable of [producing] birth.
They, through the fault of association with the {{guṇa|qualities}}s, [are] as it were bound — like grains of corn by their own husks — and obtain [repeated] birth, so long as they are not burnt by the fire of {{jñāna|knowledge}}.
Kalpabuddha
The distinct forms of wisdom (jñāna) attributed to each Tathāgata, later systematized as the five wisdoms correlated with the senses.
His `mudrā` is the `bodhyagrī`, his `jñāna` is `śāśvata`, his implement is the `cakra`.
They become the five wisdoms (`pañcajñāna`).
His `jñāna` is `ādarśana`.
Vrhaspatitattva
Knowledge, defined by the threefold pramāṇa (perception, inference, scripture); its fruit is mokṣa and non-return to existence.
One who is possessed of these three *pramāṇa*—*pratyakṣa*, *anumāna*, and *āgama*—is said to have *samyagjñāna* (correct knowledge).
> From correct knowledge, indeed, at will, the wise one has the four powers.
One who is possessed of *samyagjñāna* is truly superior, for they attain *mokṣa* and are not born again.