ABHISAMAYALAMKARA

322 ANALYSIS OF
Accordingly, (the contents of the Sutras) contains an
exposition of the aspects and the other (topics) just
mentioned.
Thereupon, the person who has brought to development
the (cognition peculiar to the) degrees conducive to
Salvation and is full of energy—
7. by means of the cognition peculiar to the
( 4) degrje.es conducive to Ijluminat
i o n,—
8. secures the properties of (a member of) the
Congregation of the Bodhisattvas
who in their course of training have
attained the Irretrievable State.
9. And, having meditated on the Ultimate
Identity of Samsara and NirvSiia in
order to attain Buddhahood,—
10. the Bodhisattva brings to accomplishment the
purification of his world of future
activity as a Buddha, and—
11. Owing to his skill makes manifest the
activity of a Buddha 1 without effort and in correspondence
with the merits and needs (of the converts^). (The contents
of the Sutras accordingly represent) an exposition
of the D'egrees conducive to Illumination etc. 2
So we have the process of intuition of all the aspects
(of the three forms of Omniscience) as peculiar to the
Buddhas etc. according to the circumstances. It is spoken
of (in the Astasdhasrilia}, beginning with the passage of
the Fii i n t h C h a p t e r 3 :—Having been thus addressed
the reverend Subhuti said to the Lord as follows :—The
Climax of Wisdom is (the cognition of) the non-existence
(of i the Phenomenal objects as permanent enduring
entities),—-and ending with the passage of the
twentieth Chapter 4 :—In the same manner the
1 Compare Uttaratantra-vyakhya, Transl. p. 117.
2 The first part of the fourth Adhikara, beginning with the 173
akaras and ending with the 16 svabhava-laksana (Kar. IV. 1-31.^contains
the general topics connected with the Path. Beginning with the
(preliminary) degrees conducive to Salvation (moiisa-bhagiya) the
fourth chapter contains an exposition of the actual process of realization
on the Path. Rnam-bsad, 199 b. 2.—rnam-rdzogs-sbyor-ba spyihi
rnam-bzag dan. thar-pa cha-mthun-nas bzun ste rgyud-la s\ye-bah.i«
rim-pa bsad-paho.
3 Ast 204. 20—205. 1.
4 Ibid. 380. 13.
THE ABHISAMAYALAMKARA 323
Bodhisattvas, the Mahasattvas cannot fall a prey to the
world including the gods, the human beings, and the
Asuras.—
[Abhis. aloka. MS. 19b. 4-20a. 3.] 1
DETAILED ANALYSIS OF THE ELEMENTS CONSTITUTING
THE PROCESS OF CONTEMPLATION AND INTUITION OF ALL THE
ASPECTS (OF THE THREE FORMS OF OMNISCIENCE).
I. The Aspects (of the three Forms
of Omniscience) WI^HJ: =
mam-pa.
Kar. IV, 1-5 (31)
I General definition ace. to Don. 2 The various meanings of
akjara ace. to Skjabs. 3 General character of the aspects ace. to the
Abhis. alo^a.
Definition: The varieties or the special modes
of apprehension peculiar to the meditative training which
consists in the contemplation of the three forms of
Omniscience, grasped together.
[Don. 13b. 4-5.] rnkhyen-gsum bsdus-$gom~gyi sbyorbahi
hdzin-stafis-kyi bye-brag-gam }^hyad-par de. mkhyen
gsum bsdus-sgom-gyi shyor-b®hi rnam-pahi mtshan-nid.
The word akara can be interpreted in many different
ways. We may take it to nxean 1 the objective
aspects of contemplation, 173 in number,
refering to* the characteristic features of the (5) groups of
1 For the Tib. version, ef. Appendix.