The History of Buddhist Thought c10.28

c10.28

² Buddhaghosa interprets pārājika as “suffering defeat”, and the Mūla-Sarvāstivādins appear to do the same (Mvyut., 278, 9), but the earliest commentary in the Vinaya gives no suggestion of this meaning. The term was probably adopted from some already existing sect. S. Lévi (loc. cit.) has made it probable that it is the same word as the Jain pāramciya, in the sense of being (permanently) excluded.