Āryānityatāsūtra
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Source: GRETIL (gretil.sub.uni-goettingen.de) — Sanskrit academic edition. Title: Āryānityatāsūtra. Data entry: (see source file). License: refer to source file header.
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## Data entry: members of the Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Input Project
## Contribution: members of the Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Input Project
## Date of this version: 2020-07-31

## Source:
   - M.B. Shakya. Buddhist Himalaya Vol.1, No.1. Nepal: Nagarjuna Institute of Exact Methods, 1988, pp. 58-60.

## Publisher: Göttingen Register of Electronic Texts in Indian Languages (GRETIL), SUB Göttingen

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## Notes:
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	 Aryanityatasutra = AniSū
Based on the edition by M.B. Shakya. Buddhist Himalaya Vol.1, No.1.
Nepal: Nagarjuna Institute of Exact Methods, 1988, pp. 58-60.
Input by members of the Sanskrit Buddhist Input Project.
With kind permission of the Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Project
of Nagarjuna Institute, Nepal
and University of the West, Rosemead, California, USA
(www.uwest.edu/sanskritcanon)
Sutra section, text no. 1

## Revisions:
   - 2020-07-31: TEI encoding by mass conversion of GRETIL's Sanskrit corpus

# Text

āryānityatā sūtram

om namaḥ sarvajñāya

evaṃ mayā śrutamekasmin samaye bhagavān śrāvastyāṃ viharati sma jetavane 'nāthapiṇḍadasyārāme mahatā bhikṣusaṃghena sārddhaṃ trayodaśabhirbhikṣuśataiḥ / tatra khalu bhagavān bhikṣūnāmantrayate sma -

anityā bhikṣavaḥ sarvasaṃskārā adhruvā anāsvāsikā vipariṇāmadharmāṇaḥ / yadyāvat bhikṣavaḥ sarvebhyaḥ saṃskārebhyo 'laṃ nirvartitumalaṃ viraktamalaṃ vimoktum / sarveṣāṃ sattvānāṃ sarveṣāṃ bhūtānāṃ sarveṣāṃ prāṇināṃ āmaraṇānta hi jīvita maraṇa paryavasānaṃ nāsti jātasyāmaraṇam /

yepi te bhikṣavo gṛhapatayo mahāśālakulā brāhmaṇa mahāśālakulākṣatriya mahāśālakulā āśāṃ mahādhano mahābhogāḥ prabhūtamaṇimāṇikyamuktāvaiduryaśaṃkhaśilāpravālajātarūparajatavikaraṇāḥ prabhūtadhanadhānyakoṣakoṣṭhāgārasannicayāḥ prabhūtadāsīdāsakarmakara paurūṣeyo prabhūtamitrāmātyajñātisālohitāsteṣāmapi maraṇāntaṃ jīvitamaraṇaṃparyavasānaṃ nāsti jātasyāmaraṇaṃ /

yepi te bhikṣavaḥ rājānaḥ kṣatriyāśca murddhābhiṣiktā jānapadai śvaryasthāmavīryamanuprāptā mahāntaṃ pṛthvīmaṇḍalamabhinirjityā vasanti / teṣāmapi maraṇāntaṃ hi jīvitaṃ maraṇaparyavasānaṃ nāsti jātasyāmaraṇaṃ /

yepi te bhikṣavaḥ ṛṣayo vānaprasthāḥ pramukta phalāhārāḥ prabhūktaphala bhojinaḥ pramukta phalena yāpanti teṣāmapi maraṇāntaṃ hi jīvita maraṇaparyavasānaṃ nāsti jātasyāmaraṇaṃ /

yepi te bhikṣavaḥ kāmāvacāradevāścāturmahārājikādevāstrayāstriśāṃdevānāmāstuṣitādevānirmāṇaratayodevāḥ paranirmitavaśavartinodevāsteṣāmapi maraṇāntaṃ hi jīvitaṃ maraṇa paryavasānaṃ nāsti jātasyāmaraṇaṃ /

yepi te bhikṣavo rūpiṇo devāḥ prathamadhyānalābhino brahmakāyikā brahmapurohitā mahābrahmāṇaḥ dvitīya dhyānalābhina parītābhā apramāṇābhā ābhāśvarā stṛtīyadhyāna lābhinaḥparītaśubhā apramāṇaśubhā śubhakṛtsnā caturthadhyāna lābhinonabhrakā puṇyaprasavā bṛhatphalā avṛhā atapā sudṛśāḥ sudarśanā akaniṣṭhāścadevāsteṣāmapi maraṇāntaṃ hi jīvitaṃ maraṇaṃ paryavasānaṃ nāsti jātasyāmaraṇaṃ /

yepi te bhikṣavaḥ ārūpiṇodevā ākāśānantaāyatanopagā vijñānantyāyatanopagā ākiṃcanyāyatanopagā naivasaṃjñānāsaṃjñāyatanopagāśca devāsteṣāmapi maraṇāntahi jīvita maraṇaṃ paryavasāna nāsti jātasyāmaraṇa / traidhātukamidaṃ /

yepi te bhikṣavo 'rhantaḥ kṣīṇāsravā kṛtakṛtyāḥ kṛtakaraṇīyā apahṛtabhārā anuprāptatvākāthā parikṣīṇabhavasaṃyojanaḥ samyagājñāsuvimuktacittāḥ sarvacetovaśiparamapāramitāprāptāsteṣāmapi kāyanikṣepaṇadharmāḥ /

yepi te bhikṣavaḥ pratyekabuddhā khaḍga viṣāṇakalpā ekamātmāna damayanti ekamātmāna śamayati ekamātmātmānaṃparinirvāyanti teṣāmapi 'yaṃkāyonikṣepaṇadharmaḥ /

yepi te bhikṣavastathāgatā arhantaḥ samyak saṃbuddhādaśavalavalinaḥudārārṣamāḥsamyak siṃhanādanādineścaturvaiśāradyadharmārohaṇa vaiśāradyaṃ / sarvadharmadeśanāvaiśāradyaṃ nirvāṇamārgavatāraṇavaiśāradyaṃ āśravajñāna prahāṇāvaiśāradyaṃ / viśadādṛḍhanārāyaṇasaṃhatakāyāsteṣāmapyayaṃkāyonikṣepaṇa dharmaḥ / tadyathāpi nāma bhikṣavaḥ kumbhakārakṛtāni bhāṇḍāniśrāmānivāpakvāni va bhedanaparyantāni bhedana paryavasānānyevameva bhikṣavaḥ sarveṣāṃ sattvānāṃ sarveṣāṃ bhūtānāṃ prāṇināṃ āmaraṇāntaṃ hi jīvita maraṇaparyavasānaṃ nāsti jātasyāmaraṇaṃ / īdamavocadbhagavānnidamukto sugato hyathā parovāca śāstā /

anityāvata saṃskārā utpāda vyayadhārmiṇaḥ /
utpādyahinirūdhyante teṣāṃvyapaśamaḥsukhaṃ //

yathā hi kumbhakāreṇa muttikābhājanaṃ kṛtaṃ /
sarva bhedana paryantaṃ sattvānāṃjīvitaṃtathā //

yathāphalānāṃ pakvānāṃśaśvatpatanatobhayaṃ /
tathā saṃskārajāḥ satvā nityaṃ maraṇato bhayaṃ //

sarvekṣayāntā nicayāḥ patanāntāḥ samucchrayāḥ /
saṃyogāśca viyogāntā maraṇāntahi jīvitam //

idamavocad bhagavānāttamanāste ca bhikṣavaḥ sā ca parṣadobhagavato bhāṣitamabhyanandan /

ityāryānityatā sūtraṃsamāptaṃ //
-- Āryānityatāsūtra (Academic edition — see source file header)