A History of Pali Literature v1.c8.5.2

v1.c8.5.2

The vaggo on love and reverence deals with respect out of love (pema), respect out of honour (gārava), two sorts of honour (gārava), wealth (dhana), and religion (dhamma), strength of the body, nirvāṇa, the ultimate end, etc. The second book deals with the bond of human passions. It explains demerits (akusalamūla), 3 saṃyojanas (bonds or fetters), 5 views, 9 saṃyojanas, 98 anusayas with their details, scopes, and results; sakadāgāmin (those who come but once) and the germs of passions still left in the Sakadāgāmins. It also deals with moral defilements arising in men from views and from practices, 4 fruits of sāmañña, death and rebirth, and regions having no rebirth. It then explains causes of moral defilements, single cause and double cause; order of various thoughts and thought connected with indriyas; knowledge that can destroy the causes (prahāṇa-parijñā) and realisation of the destruction (nirodha-sākṣātkāra). The third book deals with sekha and asekha; five kinds of views, right and wrong; the knowledge of another's mind (paracittañāṇa); the cultivation of knowledge, and knowledge attained by the ariya-puggalas. The fourth book explains wicked actions, erroneous speech, injury to living beings (hiṃsā), demonstrable and undemonstrable, and actions bearing the selfsame results. The fifth book deals with pure organs (indriyas), conditions of the combination of elements, visible truth and internal products.