Mūlamadhyamakakārikā / 11. Pūrvāparakoṭi (पूर्वापरकोटि)

11. Pūrvāparakoṭi (पूर्वापरकोटि)

Summary

Chapter 11 is the first end and the last end of the round. A beginning of saṃsāra (संसार) is not found, and a last edge that could be pointed at as a thing is not found either. Without those edges, the round is not a container with a start one might have missed.

नेपालीमा

अध्याय ११ संसारको आदि र अन्त्य हुन्। संसारको आदि पाइँदैन, र वस्तुझैँ औंल्याउन सकिने अन्तिम किनारा पनि पाइँदैन। ती किनारा नभएपछि संसार थाहा नपाई छुटेको सुरुवात भएको भाँडो होइन।

The first and the last end of the round.

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11.1	पूर्वा प्रज्ञायते कोटिर् नेत्युवाच महामुनिः । संसारोऽनवराग्रो हि नास्यादिर् नापि पश्चिमम् pūrvā prajñāyate koṭir nety uvāca mahāmuniḥ / saṃsāro 'navarāgro hi nāsyādir nāpi paścimam The earlier, in prajñāyata (प्रज्ञायत), an end, not thus, uvāca (उवाच), mahāmuna (महामुन), the round, anavarāgra (अनवराग्र). nāsyādir (नास्यादिर्), not even, paścima (पश्चिम).
11.2	नैवाग्रं नावरं यस्य तस्य मध्यं कुतो भवेत् । तस्मान् नात्रोपपद्यन्ते पूर्वापरसहक्रमाः naivāgraṃ nāvaraṃ yasya tasya madhyaṃ kuto bhavet / tasmān nātropapadyante pūrvāparasahakramāḥ Not evāgra (एवाग्र), not avara (अवर), of of whom, whose, of of that, his, the middle, from where. kutaḥ (कुतः) before a voiced sound, would be, therefore.
11.3	पूर्वं जातिर् यदि भवेज् जरामरणमुत्तरम् । निर्जरा मरणा जातिर् भवेज् जायेत चामृतः pūrvaṃ jātir yadi bhavej jarāmaraṇam uttaram / nirjarā maraṇā jātir bhavej jāyeta cāmṛtaḥ The earlier, a futile rejoinder, if, bhavej (भवेज्), jarāmaraṇa (जरामरण), the later, wearing away, maraṇa (मरण), a futile rejoinder, bhavej (भवेज्), jāyeta (जायेत), a.
11.4	पश्चाज् जातिर् यदि भवेज् जरामरणमादितः । अहेतुकमजातस्य स्याज् जरामरणं कथम् paścāj jātir yadi bhavej jarāmaraṇam āditaḥ / ahetukam ajātasya syāj jarāmaraṇaṃ katham After, a futile rejoinder, if, bhavej (भवेज्), jarāmaraṇa (जरामरण), ādita (आदित), ahetuka (अहेतुक), of ajāta (अजात), it would be, let it be granted, jarāmaraṇa (जरामरण), how.
11.5	न जरामरणं चैव जातिश् च सह युज्यते । म्रियेत जायमानश् च स्याच् चाहेतुकतोभयोः na jarāmaraṇaṃ caiva jātiś ca saha yujyate / mriyeta jāyamānaś ca syāc cāhetukatobhayoḥ Not jarāmaraṇa (जरामरण) and just, a futile rejoinder and, together with, fits, mriyeta (म्रियेत), a compound: jāya (जाय), and a measure, a means of knowing.
11.6	यत्र न प्रभवन्त्येते पूर्वापरसहक्रमाः । प्रपञ्चयन्ति तां जातिं तज् जरामरणं च किम् yatra na prabhavanty ete pūrvāparasahakramāḥ / prapañcayanti tāṃ jātiṃ taj jarāmaraṇaṃ ca kim Where, not prabhavanty (प्रभवन्त्य्), these, a compound: pūrvā (पूर्वा), another, the higher, with, and order, in prapañcayanta (प्रपञ्चयन्त), tāṃ (तां), a futile rejoinder.
11.7	कार्यं च कारणं चैव लक्ष्यं लक्षणमेव च । वेदना वेदकश् चैव सन्त्यर्था ये च के चन kāryaṃ ca kāraṇaṃ caiva lakṣyaṃ lakṣaṇam eva ca / vedanā vedakaś caiva santy arthā ye ca ke cana An effect and, a cause and just, lakṣya (लक्ष्य), a mark just and, a compound: the Veda, and not, a compound: the Veda, and kaśa (कश) and just.
11.8	पूर्वा न विद्यते कोटिः संसारस्य न केवलम् । सर्वेषामपि भावानां पूर्वा कोटी न विद्यते pūrvā na vidyate koṭiḥ saṃsārasya na kevalam / sarveṣām api bhāvānāṃ pūrvā koṭī na vidyate The earlier, not is found, an end, of the round, not perfection, of of all even, of of beings, the earlier, an end, not is found.