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    Ancient · Sanskrit

    Śarīrārthagāthā

    Asaṅga

    Śarīrārthagāthā, a Sanskrit philosophical text by Asaṅga, with transliteration and Thothica's English translation from the GRETIL source text.

    Chapters
    41
    Variants
    82
    Genre
    Philosophy
    Difficulty
    Advanced

    Chapters

    1. 01Doing no evil (opening admonitory verse)prose
    2. 02On comprehending the expressible (ākhyeya)prose
    3. 03Quelling the fever of sensual passionprose
    4. 04The maiden's question (first set): how the monk crosses the floodsprose
    5. 05The terrified world and the brāhmaṇa at peaceprose
    6. 06By whom the people are led to the deliverance-pathprose
    7. 07How one gains fame, wealth, repute, and friendsprose
    8. 08Where the streams turn back and the round ceasesprose
    9. 09By what one crosses the flood and the oceanprose
    10. 10Who sinks not in the supportless deepprose
    11. 11The source of passion, hatred, and discursive thoughtsprose
    12. 12The brāhmaṇa's task and the one gone to the far shoreprose
    13. 13Prose chant: 'Monk, have you crossed the flood?'prose
    14. 14The maiden's question (second set): the solitary meditatorprose
    15. 15Impermanence of conditioned thingsprose
    16. 16Heedfulness is the deathlessprose
    17. 17Craving's increase in the lustfulprose
    18. 18The dear, dharma-abiding manprose
    19. 19Not imitating another's evil deedprose
    20. 20The four marks of well-spoken speechprose
    21. 21The virtues praised by the good — the heaven-going pathprose
    22. 22The fruits of hearing the dharmaprose
    23. 23The wise one unstained, unshaken in saṃsāraprose
    24. 24Five types judged by inner/outer insight (those led by mere sound)prose
    25. 25The sixth ruler (mind) and the passionate foolprose
    26. 26The city of bonesprose
    27. 27The tortoise simile (withdrawing the thoughts)prose
    28. 28The sage breaking the shell of becomingprose
    29. 29Four similes for the defilementsprose
    30. 30No track in space; the Tathāgatas free of proliferationprose
    31. 31The cravingless sage unknown to the worldprose
    32. 32Free of the four yokes, beyond rebirthprose
    33. 33Merit of giving and the quenching by destruction of defilementsprose
    34. 34The teaching of the Buddhas (the Ovāda stanza)prose
    35. 35Taming the mindprose
    36. 36The savour of seclusionprose
    37. 37The solitary wandering monkprose
    38. 38Taming the far-faring mind — the true brāhmaṇaprose
    39. 39Ajita's questions (from the Pārāyaṇa)prose
    40. 40On sensual desires (from the Arthavargīya / Aṭṭhakavagga)prose
    41. 41The 'Auspicious Single (Night/Attachment)' verseprose

    In the atlas

    fully mapped

    Figures

    Ajita · Dāmali · Gautama (the Buddha) · Indra · an unnamed deity (devatā) · the Yakṣa · the maiden (questioner)

    Ideas25

    animitta · aśubhā-bhāvanā · caturyoga · cessation of consciousness · conceit (māna) and self-measuring · heedfulness · kleśa · nirvāṇa / quenching · non-doing of evil · nāmarūpa

    Places

    the world(s) of gods and men

    Groups

    The Populace · the Buddhas · the noble/good ones

    Animals

    Tortoise

    3 citations · 12 themes · 38 entity mentions — every one anchored to a verbatim passage. The atlas.