abhijñā (1478)

abhijñā
Entry 1478, Page 50, Col. 2

(aBijYA, aBijYA)
abhijñā¦ (= Pali abhiññā), higher or supernatural knowledge; intuition (CPD). There are 5 or 6, in both Pali and BHS, agreeing in essence tho the order and precise forms of the names vary. In Dharmas 20, five: divyacakṣus, divyaśrotra, paracittajñāna, pūrvanivāsānusmṛti, ṛddhi; in Mvy 201--209 six, same order, with variant forms, (parasya) cetaḥ- (citta-)-paryāya- (q.v.)-jñāna, for the third; the sixth is āśravakṣayajñāna, as in Pali and else- where when 6 are named; the fifth is ṛddhividhijñāna in Mvy 208; SP 134.11 lists 5, practically as in Dharmas except that the fifth is ṛddhivimokṣakriyā, an unusual phrase, for which no v.l. is given in KN or WT; Burnouf (Lotus App. XIV, p. 821) cites his ms. as reading ṛddhi- sākṣātkriyā, which is much more plausible. Twenty abhijñā-karmāṇi are set forth in detail Mvy 210--230. In Laṅk 292.13--16 the abhijñā, collectively, are classified as to their origin in four ways (in l. 16 read with Suzuki Transl. 242 n. 1 te 'bhijñā na vipākajāḥ). References to five abhijñā: SP 12.4; 141.9; 254.14; Mv i.284.3; ii.33.11; in ii.96.1 attributed to brahmanical, non-Buddhist ṛṣis; Divy 321.3; Śikṣ 243.13 (read pañco, see p. 412, note) etc.; six, SP 90.7; 129.10; 150.2; 155.2; 255.4; 272.6; Mv iii.55.5 ff.; Divy 399.27, etc.; note Mv i.165.12 where ‘by abhijñā’ (abhijñāye) the Buddha attains knowledge of the Doctrine taught of old by other Buddhas; this certainly does not mean memory, cf. s.v. abhijānāti, which is commonly but wrongly rendered remembers in similar contexts; mahā- bhijñā- SP 66.8.

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