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Viññāṇa Viññupasaṭṭha

of v. (on Sn 1055: yaṁ kiñci sampajānāsi... panujja viññāṇaṁ diff. view S ii.65 (yaṁ ceteti... ārammaṇaṁ... hoti viññāṇassa
bhave na tiṭṭhe): puññ' âbhisankhāra — sahagata — viññāṇaṁ, ṭhitiyā). — See also Ps i.22, 122; Sn 1114; Nett 31, 83 sq.;
b
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apuññ'..., ānejj'... — Under the same heading at Nd 569 we Vism 552; VbhA 169. -dhātu mind — element, which is
find abhisankhāra v. with ref. to the sotāpatti — stage, i. e. the 6th dhātu after the 4 great elements (the mahābhūtāni) and
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the beginning of salvation, where it is said that by the grad- ākāsa — dhātu as fifth (this expl as "asamphuṭṭha — dhātu"
ual disappearance of abhis. — v. there are still 7 existences at VbhA 55, whereas v. — dhātu as "vijānana — dhātu") D
left before nāma — rūpa (individuality) entirely disappears. iii.247; Vbh 85, 87; VbhA 55; cp. A i.176; M iii.31, 62, 240;
The climax of this development is "anupādi — sesa nibbāna S ii.248. -vīthi the road of mind (fig.), a mediaeval t. t. for
— dhatu," or the nibbāna stage without a remainder (parinib- process in senseperception KhA 102.
bāna), which is characterized not by an abhisankhāra — v.,
Viññāṇaka (adj.) [viññāṇa+ka] having life or consciousness or
but by the carimaka-v., or the final vital spark, which is now
sense, endowed with vitality. Found in the four Nikāyas only
going to be extinct. This passage is referred to at DhsA 357,
in one standard passage in the same connection, viz. sa-
where the first half is quoted literally. — (e) As kāya i. e.
viññāṇaka kāya "the body with its viññāṇa" (i. e. life —
group, v. is considered psycho — physically, as a factor in
force or mind): S ii.253; iii.80, 169; v.311; A i.132; iv.53.
senseperception (D iii.243, M iii.281, etc.), namely, the con- Thus (sa°) should be read at all passages. — Later in contrast
tact between sense — organ and object (medium, μεταζύ was
pair sa° and a°, i. e. with life & without, alive & lifeless,
not taken into account) produces v. of sight, hearing etc. The
animate & inanimate, e. g. J i.466, 468; DhA i.6; PvA 130.
three factors constitute the v. — kāya of the given sense. And
Viññāṇatta (nt.) [abstr. formation fr. viññāṇa] the fact of being
the v. is thus bound to bodily process as a catseye is threaded
endowed with viññāṇa S iii.87; PvA 63.
on a string (D ii.76). Cp. above c.
Other applications of the term v., both Canonical and me- Viññāta [pp. of vijānāti] apperceived, (re)cognized, understood,
diaeval: on details as to attributes and functions, see Vin i.13 cogitated (Cpd. 37), learned Sn 323 (°dhamma, one who has
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(as one of the khandhas in its quality of anattā, cp. S iv.166 recognized or understood the Dhamma); Vv 44 (=viññāta —
sq.); D iii.223 (as khandha); S ii.101 sq. (°assa avakkanti); sāsana — dhamma VvA 192); J i.2; Sdhp 429. — Often in se-
iii.53 sq. (°assa gati, āgati, cuti etc.); A i.223 sq.; iii.40; Sn quence diṭṭha suta muta viññāta to denote the whole range
734 (yaṁ kiñci dukkhaṁ sambhoti, sabbaṁ viññāṇa — pac- of the cognitional & apperceptional faculties (see muta), e. g.
cayā), 1037 (nāma — rūpa destroyed in consequence of v. de- D iii.232; Sn 1086, 1122.
struction), 1073 (cavetha v. [so read for bhavetha]; v. at this Viññātar [n. ag. of viññāta] a perceiver, one who apper-ceives or
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passage expl as "punappaṭisandhi — v." at Nd 569 ); 1110
takes to heart, a learner D i.56; A iii.169; iv.196 (sotar, ugga-
(uparujjhati); Ps i.53 sq., 153 sq.; ii.102; Vbh 9 sq., 53 sq., 86;
hetar, v.).
Nett 15 (nāma — rūpa v. — sampayutta), 16 (v. — hetuka n.
Viññāpaka (adj.) [fn. viññāpeti] clever in instruction, able to in-
— r.), 17 (nirodha), 28, 79, 116 (as khandha); Vism 529 (as
struct S v.162=Miln 373; It 107.
simple, twofold, fourfold etc.), 545=VbhA 150 sq. (in detail
as product of sankhāras & in 32 groups); VbhA 172 (twofold: Viññāpana (adj.) [fr. viññāpeti] instructing, informing A ii.51,
vipāka & avipāka); DhA iv.100. 97. — f. viññāpanī instructive, making clear (of speech) D
-ânañc'āyatana infinitude ( — sphere) of life — force i.114 (atthassa viññāpaniyā=viññāpanasamatthāya DA i.282);
or mind — matter D i.35, 184, 223; iii.224, 262, 265; Nett A iii.114; Dh 408 (=attha° DhA iv.182); Sn 632.
26, 39. It is the second of the Āruppa — jhānas; see jhāna.
Viññāpaya (adj.) [grd. of viññāpeti, =*viññāpya] accessible to
-āhāra consciousness (i. e. vital principle) sustenance: see
instruction; only in cpds du° & su° indocile & docile S i.138;
above d and cp. Dhs 70, 126; Nett 114 sq.; Vism 341. -kāya: 2 3
D ii.38; Nd 235 ; Ps i.121; ii.195; Vbh 341.
see above e. -khandha life — force as one of the aggre-
Viññāpita [pp. of viññāpeti] instructed, informed; su° well taught
gates of physical life D iii.233; Tikp 61; DhsA 141; VbhA 21,
Miln 101.
42. -ṭṭhiti viññāṇa — duration, phase of mental life. The em-
phasis is on duration or continuation rather than place, which Viññāpetar [n. ag. of viññāpita] an instructor, teacher D i.56; A
would be ṭṭhāna. There are (α) 4 v. — durations with regard iv.196.
to their "storing" (abhisankhāra) quality, viz. combinations of
Viññāpeti [Caus. II. of vijānāti] to address, inform, teach, in-
v. (as the governing, mind — principle) with each of the 4
struct; to give to understand; to appeal to, to beg Vin i.54;
other khandhas or aggregates of material life (rūpa, vedanā,
iv.264; D i.251; J iii.72 (to intimate); Miln 229; VvA 72, 181.
saññā, sankhārā), v. animating or bringing them to conscious-
— pp. viññāpita.
ness in any kind of life — appearance; and (β) 7 v. — dura-
tions with regard to their "regenerating" (new — life comb n Viññāya & viññāyati see vijānāti.
or rebirth=paṭisandhi) quality, viz. the 4 planes of var. beings Viññutā & viññūtā (f.) [fr. viññu] discretion; in phrase viññu-
(from men to devas), followed by the 3 super — dimensional taṁ pāpuṇāti to reach the years of discretion or puberty Vin
stages (the ānañc' āyatanas) of ākāsa — infinitude, viññāṇa — i.269; ii.278; J i.231; iii.437: PvA 3.
infin. & ākiñ — cañña — infin. — Passages in the Canon: Viññupasaṭṭha [vi+ni+upassaṭṭha, pp. of sṛj (?)] un-attacked,
(α) as 4: D 1 i.262 sq.; S iii.53 sq. ("standing for conscious- not deficient, unmolested, undisturbed: is Kern's (Toev. s. v.)
ness" & "platform," °patiṭṭhā S iii.54; K.S. iii.45) — (β) the 7: proposed reading for viññū-pasattha ("extolled by the wise")
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D ii.68 sq.; iii.253 (trsl "station of consciousness"), 282; =A at S ii.70 (reads ṭṭh); v.343; D ii.80; iii.245: all identical pas-
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iv.39. Both the 4 and the 7 at Nd 570. Cp. under a slightly
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