Aspects of Mahayana Buddhism and its Relation to Hinayana c8.s2.t3.85

c8.s2.t3.85

The Kośa tells us that a candidate while progressing along these kṣaṇas is called Śraddhānusārī, Dharmānusārī or Srotāpattiphalapratipannaka up to the fifteenth kṣaṇa. It is in the sixteenth moment that he is considered established (sthita) in the sotāpattiphala and he may now be said to have obtained the catuḥsatyābhisamaya. This attainment, or in other words, the completion of the Darśanamārga frees him from the avastuka kleśas, viz., satkāyadṛṣṭi, etc., and makes him an Ārya, i.e., a person entitled to let himself flow along the stream of sanctification—the eightfold path. He is no more to be called Śraddhānusārī or Dharmānusārī. He is now a Srotāpanna².