kāma-guṇa (4705)

kāma-guṇa
Entry 4705, Page 177, Col. 1

(kAmaguRa, kAma-guRa)
kāma-guṇa¦, m. pl. (= Pali id., defined as the objects of the five senses, e.g. AN iii.411.4 ff.), qualities of desire, regularly five in number, in some passages clearly under- stood as the objects of the five senses as in Pali; so Mv iii.417.2 pañca kāmaguṇe (n. pl.; read °ṇā?) loke manaḥ- ṣaṣṭhā praveditā (so read with mss.), tatra me vigato chando…; SP 79.8 (mā…'bhiramadhvaṃ hīneṣu) rūpa- śabda-gandha-rasa-sparśeṣu; atra hi yūyaṃ traidhātuke 'bhiratāḥ pañca-kāmaguṇa-sahagatayā tṛṣṇayā dahyatha; yet in Mv ii.116.17 pañca kāmaguṇāṃ (acc. pl.), specifically listed as nāṭyaṃ gītaṃ vāditaṃ tūryaṃ striyo; the fact seems to be that the phrase became a stock formula or cliché, often used without definite association with any list; so Mvy 5378, 7373 mentions the 5 kāmaguṇa, but never lists them (in 871 even the number 5 is lacking). The old tradition that they are the objects of the 5 senses never died out, however; see LaVallée-Poussin, AbhidhK. iii.86 note 2. With the number 5 they are mentioned SP 78.12; 111.6; 213.6; LV 186.19; 215.3; Mv i.31.5; ii.170.13, etc.; without the number e.g. LV 45.4; 173.19 and 22 (cited Śikṣ 204.7 and 10); Mv ii.142.5, 12.

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