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world-element that form the field of birth (
jāti-khetta
) quaked, the effect of
which reached to the limit of the bordering oceans.
After the Bodhisatta had cultivated the knowledge of conditioned things
(
sammasana-ñāṇa
) of the 3,600,000 billion great adamantine insight knowledges
by reflecting on the twelve factors of the doctrine of dependent origination as
was usual for all the Bodhisattas, he again entered upon the fourth absorption on
breathing (
ānāpāna-jhāna
) in order to sharpen the sword blade of the higher
insight knowledge (
vipassanā-ñāṇa
) such as the knowledge of arising and
passing (
udayabbaya-ñāṇa
),
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on the whetstone on the fourth absorption on
breathing. Having thus entered upon the fourth absorption on breathing, and
having sharpened the sword blade of the higher insight knowledge, he rose from
it and realised, with ease, the higher insight knowledges such as the knowledge
of rising and falling (
udayabbaya-ñāṇa
).
It should be noted here that the Bodhisatta realized the higher insight
knowledges with ease because, as he had entered the Saṅgha in the
presence of past Buddhas and learnt the Three Baskets and practised
insight meditation, he cultivated and developed even to the extent of
attaining the knowledges of rising and falling (
udayabbaya-ñāṇa
),
dissolution (
bhaṅga-ñāṇa
), fear (
bhaya-ñāṇa
), danger (
ādīnava-ñāṇa
),
cooling (
nibbidā-ñāṇa
), desire for deliverance (
muccitukamyatā-ñāṇa
),
reflecting-knowledge (
paṭisaṅkhā-ñāṇa
) and
equanimity about formations
(
saṅkhārupekkhā-ñāṇa
); and also because his insight knowledge had
developed and grown immensely by virtue of the aforesaid 3,600,000
billion great adamantine insight knowledges
of conditioned things (
mahā-
vajīra-vipassanā-sammasana-ñāṇa
).
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Udayabbaya
-
ñāṇa
: knowledge of arising and passing away of conditioned things;
bhaṅga
-
ñāṇa
: knowledge of dissolution of conditioned things;
bhaya
-
ñāṇa
: knowledge
of fear of conditioned things;
ādinavā
-
ñāṇa
: knowledge of disgust and dread of
conditioned of things;
nibbidā-ñāṇa
: knowledge of weariness with conditioned things;
muccitukamyatā
-
ñāṇa
: knowledge of longing to escape;
paṭisaṅkhā
-
ñāṇa
: knowledge
of special effort;
saṅkhārupekkha
-
ñāṇa
: knowledge of detachment from conditioned
existence.
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This is according to the Ornaments of the Victor (
Jinālaṅkāra
) and the sub-
commentary to the Collection of the Long Discourses (
Dīgha-nikāya
)
.