[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Āgama sūtras of the mainstream schools](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama) › [Arthaviniścayasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.arthaviniscayasutra) › [དོན་རྣམ་པར་ངེས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྣམ་གྲངས](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.arthaviniscayasutra*bo) › [Distinctly Ascertaining the Meanings](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.arthaviniscayasutra*bo~en-84000) › notes.22 # དན་རྣམ་པར་ངས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་ཆས་ཀྱ་རྣམ་གྲངས notes.22 Distinctly Ascertaining the Meanings notes.22 - **Language:** English ### [notes.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.arthaviniscayasutra*bo~en-84000.notes.22) 22. The Sanskrit in Samtani’s edition (Samtani 1971, p. 6) has “the present” (pratyutpanne) instead of “the prior and the following limit” (pūrvāparānte); this agrees with the Chinese translations and, importantly, with some of the Sanskrit manuscripts (F and ANe in Samtani’s edition). “Prior limit” and “following limit” are technical terms referring generally to the past and future, but more specifically to past and future lifetimes, and are often used while describing the twelve parts of dependent arising and its subdivision into three lifetimes and when describing wrong views about identity or difference between lifetimes. Thus, the referent of “prior limit” and “following limit” is occasionally the “past” and “future,” but the meaning of the terms is different (they indicate what marks the border between the present life and other lifetimes, hence the use of -anta, here translated as “limit”). - [Previous: notes.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.arthaviniscayasutra*bo~en-84000.notes.21) - [Next: notes.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.arthaviniscayasutra*bo~en-84000.notes.23) - [Up: notes](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.arthaviniscayasutra*bo~en-84000.notes) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.arthaviniscayasutra*bo~en-84000.notes.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.arthaviniscayasutra*bo~en-84000.notes.22) · Pramāṇa