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अशुभभावना (azubhabhAvanA)

 
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aśubha-bhāvanā, f. pl. °nāḥ Mvy 〔1155〕
Bbh 〔98.18〕 (read aśubha-bhāvanā for ed. aśubhā-bh°)
or aśubhasaṃjñā, Bhīk 〔27a.2〕 (= Pali asubha-bhāvanā or -saññā), see saṃjñā, contemplation of offensive things, specifically of human corpses in various states of disintegration
there are nine (in Pali, Vism. 〔i.110.29—31〕 ten) such monkish disciplines, elsewhere called simply nava saṃjñāh, the nine concepts (of offensive things), ŚsP 〔59.1〕
〔1258.5〕
a less schematized passage of the same sort in older Pali, MN 〔i.58.9 ff.〕 In Mvy 〔1156—64〕 they are listed, each cpd. with -saṃjñā: (1) vinīlaka-, (2) vipūyaka- (so read), (3) vipaḍumaka-, (4) vyādhmātaka-, (5) vilohitaka-, (6) vikhāditaka-, (7) vikṣiptaka-, (8) vidagdhaka-, (9) asthi-saṃjñā (see each of these). Bhīk 〔27a.2—3〕 agrees except that it transposes Nos. 5 and 6 and accidentally omits 8 (which perhaps should be put after 9
only Mvy has it before 9). There are three lists (one incomplete, [Page080-b] one very corrupt) in ŚsP 〔59.1 ff., 1258.5 ff., 1431.19 ff.〕 (six items only
cited from the last, with only four items one of which is not in this ŚsP list, in Śikṣ 〔211.1〕). Barring corruptions, the ŚsP lists agree with Mvy and Bhīk except in order of the terms, in which they show some (slight) resemblance to the Pali (Vism.) arrangement. ŚsP 〔1〕 (Śikṣ 〔1〕) = Vism 〔1〕 = Mvy 〔4〕
ŚsP³ (= 〔1431.19 ff.〕) 2 = Śikṣ 〔2〕 = Vism 〔2〕 = ŚsP¹ (= 〔59.1 ff.〕) and ŚsP² (= 〔1258.5 ff.〕) 5 = Mvy 〔1〕
ŚsP and Śikṣ 〔3〕 = Vism 〔3〕 = Mvy 〔2〕
Śikṣ 〔4〕 (not in ŚsP³) = ŚsP¹ and ŚsP² 〔2〕 = Vism 〔9〕 = Mvy 〔3〕
ŚsP¹ and ŚsP² 〔4〕 = ŚsP³ 〔5〕 = Vism 〔8〕 = Mvy 〔5〕 (Bhīk 〔6〕)
ŚsP¹ and ŚsP² 〔6〕 = ŚsP³ 〔4〕 = Vism 〔5〕 = Mvy 〔6〕 (Bhīk 〔5〕)
ŚsP¹ and ŚsP², Mvy 〔7〕 = ŚsP³, Vism 〔6〕
ŚsP¹ and ŚsP² 〔8〕 = Vism 〔10〕 = Mvy 〔9〕
ŚsP¹ and ŚsP² 〔9〕 = Mvy 〔8〕 (omitted in Bhīk
Vism 〔4〕 has a different term, vicchiddaka, fissured Pe Maung Tin
Vism 〔7〕 hata-vikkhittaka is variation on Vism 〔7〕 vikkhittaka = Mvy 〔7〕). On the meanings, as well as the variants and corruptions, see the terms as listed above from Mvy.
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*अशुभभावना f. fromme Betrachtungen über das Unerfreuliche des Lebens, Mahāvy. 52 in der Unterschrift.