The Second Treatise on the Perfections – 2613
The commentary to the This-Saids (
Iti-vuttaka
), in its exposition of the
Discourse on the Complete Understanding of Delusion (
Moha-pariññā-sutta
, Iti
21), gives this list:
1. Relinquishing of limbs.
2. Relinquishing of one’s life.
3. Relinquishing of wealth.
4. Relinquishing of wife and children.
5. Relinquishing of a kingdom.
The commentary to the Chronicles of the Buddhas (
Buddha-vaṁsa
)
gives this
list:
1. Relinquishing of limbs.
2. Relinquishing of one’s life.
3. Relinquishing of wealth.
4. Relinquishing of a kingdom.
5. Relinquishing of wife and children.
The commentary to the Birth Story about the Great King Vessantara
(
Vessantara-jātaka
, Ja 547) gives this list:
1. Relinquishing of wealth.
2. Relinquishing of limbs.
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3. Relinquishing of children.
4. Relinquishing of wife.
5. Relinquishing of one’s life.
The same list is found in the sub-commentary to the Ornaments of the Victor
(
Jinālaṅkāra
) but arranged in a different order.
Although each of the above lists is made up of slightly different items, it should
be noted that the essentials are the same in all of them: external objects and
one’s own body. Under external objects, we find material things apart from one’s
own body, such as the relinquishing of wealth; relinquishing of wife and
children, very dear to oneself; relinquishing of a kingdom, a most important