[INDOLOGY] Sources for verses on fate/karma

[David and Nancy Reigle]

I, too, am interested in this verse on karma, and in the very old source
reference for it kindly provided by Walter. For those who do not have the
1925-1930 Benares edition of the Prasastapadabhashyam that includes the
Vyomavati commentary, this verse is found on p. 3 of vol. 1 of the improved
edition of the Vyomavatī edited by Gaurinath Sastri (Varanasi: Sampurnanand
Sanskrit Vishvavidyalaya, 1983). Gaurinath Sastri there adds in parentheses
references to Devī-bhāgavata 9.29.69-70 and 40.73.

Best regards,

David Reigle
Colorado, U.S.A.

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 2:57 PM, Walter Slaje <slaje at kabelmail.de> wrote:

> For the full stanza,
> see Vyomashiva's VyomavatI (Benares 1930) p. 20 (kha), 2;
> for the first line only cp. Mahabharata 13, App. 15, 2200 A 1 pr.
>
> Quoted (with parallels from other philosophers) in W. Slaje,
> "Untersuchungen zur Chronologie einiger Nyaya-Philosophen (StII 11-12
> [1986]: p.254, n. 54).
>
> Best, WS
>
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> 2015-05-26 20:24 GMT+02:00 Martin Gansten <martin.gansten at pbhome.se>:
>
>> Thanks for this similar verse, David. I'd still be very interested to
>> hear from anyone who has seen the verses quoted by Balabhadra in any other
>> sources than those mentioned.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Martin
>>
>>
>> David and Nancy Reigle wrote:
>>
>> Dear Martin,
>>
>> Regarding your third verse:
>>
>> nābhuktaṃ kṣīyate karma kalpakoṭiśatair api |
>> avaśyam eva bhoktavyaṃ kṛtaṃ karma śubhāśubham ||
>>
>> You are no doubt aware of a similar verse that is found in a number of
>> Buddhist texts. An early source for it has recently been published, from
>> which I here quote it:
>>
>> na praṇaśyanti karmāṇi kalpakoṭiśatair api |
>> sāmagrīṃ prāpya kālaṃ ca phalanti khalu dehināṃ ||
>>
>> This is from the *Dhanapālakavaineyas**ūtra*, published in *A Unique
>> Collection of Twenty S**ūtras in a Sanskrit Manuscript from the Potala*,
>> editions and translation by Bhikṣuṇī Vinītā, vol. I,2, p. 692 (Sanskrit
>> Texts from the Tibetan Autonomous Region, no. 7/2. Beijing -- Vienna: China
>> Tibetology Publishing House, Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2010).
>>
>> While this does not answer your question, I thought it worthwhile to cite
>> this recently available old source for the similar Buddhist verse.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> David Reigle
>> Cotopaxi, Colorado, U.S.A.
>>
>> On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 1:22 AM, Martin Gansten <martin.gansten at pbhome.se
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Balabhadra in the early 17th century quotes several verses on the topic
>>> of niyati/daiva and karma. I have found some of these in other works but
>>> not others, and even for the ones I have found, I suspect there are earlier
>>> or more common sources. Any help with attributing the following would be
>>> much appreciated:
>>>
>>> 1. Attributed to Śaunaka:
>>>
>>> yena tu yat prāptavyaṃ tasya vidhānaṃ sureśasacivo ’pi |
>>> yaḥ sākṣān niyatijñaḥ so ’pi na śakyo ’nyathā kartum || iti |
>>>
>>> 2. No attribution, but found (with variants) in Pañcadaśī 156 and
>>> Mahāsubhāṣitasaṃgraha 3283:
>>>
>>> avaśyambhāvibhāvānāṃ pratīkāro bhaved yadi |
>>> tadā duḥkhair na bādhyeran nalarāmayudhiṣṭhirāḥ ||
>>>
>>> 3. No attribution, but apparently popular -- found (with variants) in
>>> Nāradapurāṇa 1.31.69 and 2.29.18 and Mahāsubhāṣitasaṃgraha 3292 (also
>>> quoted in Āyurvedadīpikā and Satyaśāsanaparīkṣā); the question is what
>>> would be either the earliest source or the most common/typical one in the
>>> early 1600s:
>>>
>>> nābhuktaṃ kṣīyate karma kalpakoṭiśatair api |
>>> avaśyam eva bhoktavyaṃ kṛtaṃ karma śubhāśubham ||
>>>
>>> 4. Attributed simply to smṛti:
>>>
>>> hanyate durbalaṃ daivaṃ pauruṣeṇa vipaścitā
>>>
>>> Many thanks in advance!
>>>
>>> Martin Gansten
>>>
>>>
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