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7: The Attainment of Buddhahood – 388 

 

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

)

.