Dighanikaya 3.287_2

3.287_2

Samannesīti gavesi, ekaṃ dveti vā gaṇayanto samānayi. Yebhuyyenāti pāyena, bahukāni addasa, appāni na addasāti attho. Tato yāni na addasa tesaṃ dīpanatthaṃ vuttaṃ – ‘‘ṭhapetvā dve’’ti. Kaṅkhatīti ‘‘aho vata passeyya’’nti patthanaṃ uppādeti. Vicikicchatīti tato tato tāni vicinanto kicchati na sakkoti daṭṭhuṃ. Nādhimuccatīti tāya vicikicchāya sanniṭṭhānaṃ na gacchati. Na sampasīdatīti tato – ‘‘paripuṇṇalakkhaṇo aya’’nti bhagavati pasādaṃ nāpajjati. Kaṅkhāya vā dubbalā vimati vuttā, vicikicchāya majjhimā, anadhimuccanatāya balavatī, asampasādena tehi tīhi dhammehi cittassa kālusiyabhāvo. Kosohiteti vatthikosena paṭicchanne. Vatthaguyheti aṅgajāte bhagavato hi varavāraṇasseva kosohitaṃ vatthaguyhaṃ suvaṇṇavaṇṇaṃ padumagabbhasamānaṃ. Taṃ so vatthapaṭicchannattā apassanto, antomukhagatāya ca jivhāya pahūtabhāvaṃ asallakkhento tesu dvīsu lakkhaṇesu kaṅkhī ahosi vicikicchī.

‘Looked for’ means sought, or bringing together, counting one by one, two by two. ‘For the most part’ means mostly; he saw many, but did not see a few, is the meaning. Then, to indicate those he did not see, it is said: ‘except for two.’ ‘Doubts’ means he gives rise to the longing: ‘Oh, that I might see [them]!’ ‘Hesitates’ means searching for them here and there, he struggles and is unable to see them. ‘Does not decide’ means through that hesitation, he does not arrive at a conclusion. ‘Is not satisfied’ means then he does not attain confidence in the Blessed One, [thinking,] ‘This one is endowed with the complete marks.’ Or, by doubt weak perplexity is spoken of, by hesitation medium [perplexity], by non-decision strong [perplexity], and by non-satisfaction the turbidity of the mind caused by those three states. ‘Enclosed in a sheath’ means concealed in a cloth sheath. ‘Covered by a cloth’ means on the male organ. For the Blessed One’s private parts covered by a cloth, like those of an excellent noble elephant, are enclosed in a sheath, golden-colored, resembling a lotus calyx. Not seeing that because it was concealed by cloth, and not discerning the broadness of the tongue because it remained inside the mouth, he was doubtful and hesitant about those two marks.