History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c22.12
History and Doctrines of the Ājīvikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c22.12
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c22.12
The term *niyati-saṅgati-bhāva-pariṇatā* in the *Sāmañña-phala Sutta* is ambiguous and obscure. It may be translated “ripened by the nature of the lot (i.e. decreed by) Destiny”, or “brought about by the existence of union with Destiny”. But we prefer to follow Buddhaghosa and to take the three first elements of the compound as in *dvandva* relationship, translating the phrase as above.