Pat.hama-mula-muli

Pat.hama-mula-muli

[Chiang Mai Social Research Institute, Yuan MS., microfilm # 78.009.01J099-101 (p. 178, fn. 4) from Lamphun] {with the name [Skt.] /Prat.hama-mula-muli/ ‘first root of roots’ (p. 181, fn. 2) cf., in the mythology of Manaia (Mangaia), the "root, which consisted of three spirits (vaerua), who constituted the foundation, and insured the permanence and well-being of all the rest of the universe." http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-KloDisc-t1-body-d3.html 3.2 – "Vatea embraced in his sleep a woman, named Papa (Rock)," Papa is "the wife of Wakea." (Pukui & Elbert : Hawaiian Dictionary, "Supplement B".)}

Pat.hama-mula-muli [Prat.hama-mula-muli] is a discourse spoken by the Buddha to Kon.d.an~n~a [Kaun.d.inya].

contents

introduction	pp. 177-89
chapter I	pp. 191-209
chapter II	pp. 211-23
chapter III	pp. 225-41

pp. 177, 185 the number "million" in names of countries

p.	*the million*
177, fn. 2	" ‘Million rice-fields’ (lan2-na)" : "on weighing the king’s stone bed ... . The weight was one million (lan2-na)." {cf. the gigantic size of the iron bed of king <o^g of Bas^an (Dbari^m 3:11)}
185, fn. 2	"Ancient name of the Lao kingdom" : Lan Xan " ‘Kingdom of the million Elephants’ "

p. 183 similar MS.

fn. 1	*similar Khu:n MS.s are the Pat.hama-loka* [Prat.hama-loka] (p. 183, fn. 1) and**
fn. 2	*the Pat.hama-kappa* [Prat.hama-kalpa]**
fn. 3	a similar Lao MS. is the Nithan Khun Bulom
fn. 4	a similar S^an MS. is the Khampha U

pp. 183-184 other texts on cosmology from the Lan-Na region

p.	*title*	*contents*
183, fn. 2	**Pat.hama-kappa [Prat.hama-kalpa] = Hua C^an**	"a Universal Being called Inbheb who created the world and the celestial stories [storeys], ... a universal king called Sammutiraja ... taught ... how to till rice-fields and to build houses"
184, fn. 4	(oral legend from Luan Praban)	"the Pu Gneu - Gna Gneu used to live in heaven. Because of their grotesque appearance, they terrified the gods’ children and were banished to the earth. One day, they made a hole in three gourds from the inside of which a noise was heard." From these gourds the nationalities emerged.

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Chapter 1

pp. 191-192 duration of practice of Paramita [‘Transcendental’] before becoming Buddha (A.= A-samkhyeyya; K. = Kalpa; l. = laks.a)

p.	#	*name*	*duration*
191-2	1^st	Pan~n~adhika [Prajn~adhika]	4 A., l. K.
192	2^nd	Saddhadhika [S`raddhadhika]	8 A., l. K.
	3^rd	Viriyadhika [Viryadhika]	12 A., l. K

p. 192, fn. 3 durations of contemplation by Gotama before becoming Buddha, according to the Mula-mula (a Yuan MS. from Lamphan)

by thought	60 A.
by words	90 A.
jointly by thought and by words	40 A.
total	200 A.

{was there an additional period of 10 A., to sum to this total?}

p. 196 this Pat.hama-mula-muli is one of the Gambhira ("Sacred books");

it was first preached by Buddha Tikkhadhamma [Tiks.a-dharma ‘Sharp Law’]

p. 198 the 4 cosmological layers of matter

*elemental matter*	*size [thickness?], in yojana-s*
"wind"	940,000
"liquid"	840,000
"compact", "hardened" Medani ("the earth")	140,000
jotikat.t.ha ("sparkling matter", "glittering matter" {mica-containing mineral?} ["petrified wood", according to fn. 4])	?

pp. 198-199 origination of living beings from elemental matter

p.	*from __*	*originated __*
198	"stickiness {bitumen?} coming from rocks and gold and silver ores"	*"mosses and seaweeds. From the plants burst forth ‘Gecko’ grasses (Salaginellaceae) and ‘Mouse whiskers’ which produced in turn creeping plants and a great number of trees"*
199	earth element	larvae & caterpillars
	wind element	"insects scratching the sand and the soil"
	fire element	midges & beetles
	water element	fleas

p. 199 degrees of awareness

	Those animals (but not any plants) "from Volition (Cetana) were born ... . ... These beings had ... (Citta-vin~n~an.a) [Citta-vijn~ana (citta ‘thought’)] but deprived of [lacked] ... (Mano- vin~n~an.a) [Manas-vijn~ana (manas ‘mind’)]. They were not afraid of dying. {thus, apparently it is the "manas", in the "manas-maya-kos`a", that is able to impart a concern for the after-death condition}
fn. 2	"Vin~n~an.a : ‘Animation ...’."
fn. 3	"In Thai and in Yuan, Mano means ‘heart, feeling ...’."

pp. 200, 202-203, 203-204, 205-206 quandaries (each lasting for 84,000 kalpa-s) & their solutions (each requiring 84,000 kalpa-s of contemplation to solve)

p.	*quandary*	*its solution*
200-1	p. 200 "plants proliferated and overran completely the earth."	p. 201 after "the Spirit (Citta) entered each of them, changed into larva inside these figurines," couples of animals ate the vegetation
202-3	p. 202 goddess Nan Itthan Gaiya Sankasi "could not flower scent to feed herself on"	p. 203 by contemplating her own vulva ("the organ I am endowed with which should give me pleasure"), she engendred a husband for herself (: "With that thought, the man walked on ... to meet her".)
203-4	p. 203 she inquired of him : "What to do so that ... they are not born again ...?"	p. 203 he said "let us create ... three sexes" *p. 204 this was done, by a "a seed of Phakkat* (Brassica juncea)"**
205-6	p. 205 "time is not yet fixed. They don’t know what is born before or after".	*p. 206 "They ... created ... two mechanical engines (Yanta [Yantra]) shaped like a water flea, the Meng da* (Lethocerus indicus)."**

{Are the 2 "mechanical engines ... shaped like a water flea" the longevity "waterwheels" of internal (yaugik) alchemic in Taoism and in Bon? And, if so, aequivalent to the 2 waterwheels, transporting vitality to the sphaires of moon and sun in Manichaeism? In Manichaeism the vitality thus transported is considered to be secretions of the genitalia; sexual excitation being often symbolized by the flea in the literature of erotic novels.}

pp. 200-201 the 13 couples of animals ("each species with one male and one female"); the 12-year cycle of animals

p. 200 couple of animals		p. 201 animal in 12-year cycle
1.	mice	1.	mouse (C^ai)
2.	oxen	2.	ox (Pao)
3.	tigres	3.	tigre (Yi)
4.	buffalos
5.	snakes	6.	snake (Sai)
6.	naga-s	5.	naga (Si)
7.	garud.a-s
8.	horses	7.	horse (Sa-Na)
9.	elephants	12.	elephant (Gai)
10.	goats	8.	goat (Met)
11.	monkeys	9.	9. monkey (San)
12.	gallinaceans	10.	chicken (Rao)
13.	raja-simha-s (‘royal lion’, a mythic beast)
		4.	hare (Hmao)
		11.	hound (Set)

p. 208 the 12 animals of the 12-year cycle were played with by 12 children, the progeny of the 1^st triad of beings

p. 201 the 10 activities of animals [constituting the "cycle of ten" (p. 202, fn. 1)]

1.	"eaten its fill" (Tao)
2.	"getting the food they liked" (Ka)
3.	"something falling from their mouth" (Kap)
4.	"give birth" (Dap)
5.	"fall" (Ruay)
6.	"sleep" (Meun)
7.	"wake up" (Peuk)
8.	"coming near" (Kat)
9.	"going away" (Kot)
10.	"were hungry" (Ruan)

fn.s 3-4 #s 7-10 from MS. of Wat Padaed

p. 205 gems constituting body-parts of the cosmic elephant Manosila [Manas-s`ila] "whose leg underneath measured 110000 Yojana."

*body-part*	*is composed of __*
[trunk of] body	sapphire
legs	cat’s eye
tusks	ruby
head	gold
teeth	jet

p. 206 measurements of Mt. Sinero (Sumeru)

* 10,000 yojana-s	*measured*
44	length, width (each)
71	above ground, below ground (each)

p. 206, fn. 1 -- rks.a-s (the 9 sets of 3 naks.atra-s each, propitious for particular endeavours)

*rks.a*	*endeavour*
Dal.iddo	"to ask for a favor"
Mahadhano	"for the rich ... a comfortable life"
Coro	"for thieves"
Bhumipalo	"installing the altar of the Spirit of the Earth and the ‘blessing’ of a new house"
Dessanti	"to open a brothel"
Devi	"to inaugurate a shop"
Vajjaghataka	"for catching burglars"
Raja	"for crowning a king or taking up one’s post"
Saman.o [S`raman.-]	"for ordaining a monk"

p. 206 composition of palace of sun, and of palace of moon

*palace of __*	*is composed of __*
Sun	fire-color corundum
Moon	silver-color corundum

p. 207 Around Mt. Sinero (Sumeru) the zodiac is coiled in the shape of "a spiral".

pp. 207-208 the 1^st 3 generations of mortals

p. 207

"the three human {mortal} beings [shaped by the {divine, immortal} couple] grew up and had three children.

Itthi, the woman, showed great affection for Pullinga, the man, much more so for him than {for} Napumsaka, the hermaphrodite. When he saw that the two beings loved each other tenderly, Napumsaka, the hermaphrodite[,] killed the man. The woman was grief-stricken. She laid her husband’s body in one place, planted a Jhalatun tree, or Mai Sa-Nghe[,] to indicate the place of the cemetery and offered food daily until the corpse had completely decayed. Shortly after that, the hermaphrodite died also. The woman put his body in one place and never came near it again, but went on offering rice to her deceased husband. ... Shortly after that, the woman died."

p. 208

"After their parents’ death, the three children had thirteen offspring : six girls and seven boys."

{Napumsaka is a prominent category in the Jaina classification of types of persons. Could the legends about Napumsaka, as well as the residue of the content of this book, be derived from a Jaina or an Ajivika source?}

3-gendre systems

*Lan-Na*	Valentinian (B&S, p. 115)
The napumsaka was male, relative to the female.	"The spirit of each individual was male to the random, female soul.
But even the napumsaka was female, relative to the male.	But even the spirit was female to the dominant guardian angel that hovered, as yet undiscovered, close to it.
	Redemption took the form of a reunion with that guardian angel. ... For Valentinus and his followers, the only baptism ... was baptism "into the angels.""

B&S = Peter Brown : The Body and Society : Men, Women and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity. Columbia U Pr, NY, 1988. http://books.google.com.au/books?id=gIDeAhZG9a4C&pg=PA115&lpg=PA115&dq=

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Anatole-Roger Peltier (ed.); He’le`ne Turquet de Beauregard (transl. into English) : Pat.hamulamuli : the Origin of the World in the Lan Na Tradition. Chiang Mai, 1991.