skandha (17357)

skandha
Entry 17357, Page 607, Col. 2

(skanDa, skanDa<h>1)
1 skandha¦, m. (= Pali khandha; in mg. 1 = Skt. Lex. id., recorded also in BR once from Bhāg.P. puṇya-s°, and once from Mbh. 12.449 = Crit. ed. 12.15.26, where however acc. to Nīl. it means personal body, deha), (1) mass, large amount, of bulk rather than quantity: lokadhā- -tuṃ savāyu-skandhaṃ sapṛthivī-°dhaṃ sateja(ḥ)-°dhaṃ Gv 535.26 f., the universe with its whole mass of air, earth, and fire; agni-sk° (Pali aggi-kkh°), a mass of fire, Mvy 224; SP 72.6 (of a conflagration); 73.6; 438.8; LV 66.14; Mv i.13.14 (read with mss. °dha-nibhāntike); 95.14; ii.332.15; 393.23; iii.103.15; Jm 32.5; 193.1; Av i.331.13; arciskandha Gv 75.2, a mass of flame or radiance; āpa-skandha, mass of water, see s.v. āpa; in Divy 230.23 to 231.4 skandha seems to refer to three superimposed masses of water (udaka-sk° 231.1, 4, daka-sk° 231.1, see s.v. daka) in the ocean (they seem to be called bhūmi, stage or story, in 230.28 ff.); bhoga-°dham (avahāya, prahāya) Mv ii.161.6; iii.213.3, abandoning a whole mass of enjoyments (parallel with cpds. ending in -kāya, -varga, virtual synonyms of -skandha); puṇya-s°, mass of merit, SP 340.10; 351.12; Divy 197.19; Kv 20.14 (tathāgatānāṃ), etc.; for śīla-s° see 3 below; duḥkha-s°, mass of misery, of life as a whole, LV 347.21; 348.15; 420.4; Mv ii.285.12; iii.448.15; 449.3; (2) the five agglomerations which in Buddhism are the basis of (or substitute for) the ‘personality,’ and which constitute the root of clinging to existence, hence more fully upādāna-s°, see upādāna (3), where the list is given, with examples; others, skandhānām udayaṃ (q.v.) vyayaṃ SP 69.16; maha-duḥkhaṃ pañca-skandhaṃ LV 191.7 (vs); °dhā pratītya samudeti hi duḥkham 419.13 (vs); vadhakāś ca skandhāḥ RP 44.15; etehi eva skandhehi parinirvāpayita- vyaṃ Mv iii.263.13, virtually with this present body (or, at least, existence, personality; lit. elements of separate existence); for others see s.v. dhātu 1 and 4; (3) in a good sense, religious agglomerations or concentrations; rendered in PTSD main portions or articles of the dhamma: they may be, in Pali and BHS, three (ślla-s°, samādhi-s°, prajñā-s°, Sūtrāl. xx-xxi.22; in this sense prob. Tri- skandha[-pathadeśika], q.v.; same in Pali forms, each called ase(k)kha, q.v. in CPD, Itiv. 51.2 ff., where they constitute a group of three dhammā, imehi…°mehi samannāgato…), in Pali once four (dhammakkhandhā, DN iii.229.14 f., the above three plus vimutti-kkh°), but usually five, the above three plus vimukti-s° and vimukti- jñānadarśana-s° (in Pali forms, e.g. as 5 dhamma-kkh° DN iii.279.15 ff., each called ase(k)kha SN i.99.30 ff. et al., CPD as above); these five listed as asama-sama-pañca- [Page608-a+ 71] skandhāḥ Mvy 103-108, as lokottara-pañca-sk° Dharmas 23; as cinq skandhas purs AbhidhK. LaV-P. i.48 (the first, śīla-s°, belongs to the rūpa-s° of the 5 upādāna-s°, the other four to the saṃskāra-s°); in DN comm. iii.1022.21 f. (on DN iii.229.14 f. above) khandha in these cpds. is rendered by guṇa; individual units in this group sometimes mentioned alone, śīlaskandhe ca acchidre ye bhikṣū supratiṣṭhitāḥ Mv ii.353.20 (prob. to be interpreted thus technically, yet cf. puṇya-skandha under 1 above); prajñā- skandhaṃ niveśeyaṃ Mv i.42.15 = 53.12 (vs), in parallel, i.337.4, replaced by prajñācakṣu, due to a misunderstanding (prob. of copyists, cf. bhavacakṣukaiḥ in same line); the true reading may be °skandho niveśeyaḥ with mss. in i.42.15; there is a passing allusion to 80,000 dharma- skandha in Av ii.155.8, prob. in substantially this mg.; (4) in another special (good) sense, related fundamentally to prec., there are three religious skandhas taught in the work called, for this reason, Triskandhaka, q.v.; in it, acc. to Śikṣ 290.2, trayaḥ skandhaḥ pāpadeśanā-puṇyānu- modanā-buddhādhyeṣaṇā-(khyāḥ), puṇyarāśitvāt, three agglomerations (of religion), called confession of sin, approval of (gratification in) good deeds, requesting a Buddha (for instruction), (called skandha) because they constitute heaps (rāśi = skandha) of merit. See Skandha-māra.

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