The Second Treatise on the Perfections – 2612
1. Relinquishing of limbs.
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2. Relinquishing of the eyes.
3. Relinquishing of wealth.
4. Relinquishing of a kingdom.
5. Relinquishing of wife and children.
The commentary to the Collection of the Middle Length Discourses (
Majjhima-
nikāya
) in the exposition on the Short Discourse about the Lion’s Roar (
Cūḷa-
sīha-nāda-sutta
, MN 11) gives a different list:
1. Relinquishing of limbs.
2. Relinquishing of wife and children.
3. Relinquishing of a kingdom.
4. Relinquishing of one’s life.
5. Relinquishing of the eyes.
The sub-commentary to the Path of Purification (
Visuddhi-magga
) gives this list:
1. Relinquishing of one’s life.
2. Relinquishing of the eyes.
3. Relinquishing of wealth.
4. Relinquishing of a kingdom.
5. Relinquishing of wife and children.
The sub-commentary to the Collection of the Long Discourses (
Dīgha-nikāya
),
in exposition on the Long Discourse on the Traditions (
Mahāpadāna-sutta
, DN
14), gives this list:
1. Relinquishing of limbs.
2. Relinquishing of the eyes.
3. Relinquishing of one’s body or life.
4. Relinquishing of a kingdom.
5. Relinquishing of one’s wife and children.