Scripture, Men and Heaven:Causal structure in Kumarila's action-theory of bhavana
摘要
Śabara’s conjunctive usage of bhāva, kriyā and bhāvanā Interpreting Jaiminisūtra 2.1.1, bhāvārthāh. karmaśabdās tebhyah. kriyā pratiyeta ..., Śabara first clarifies his theory of bhāvanā. Though he has a developed idea of bhāvanā with its three elements, i.e. sādhya, sādhana and itikartavyatā, he uses the terms bhāva and kriyā too as possible substitutes of bhāvanā, probably following the traditional terminology of action seen in the above sūtra, bhāvārthāh. and kriyā. On the one hand he interprets yajeta as having a bhāva-structure: tathā yateta yathā yat kincid bhavati or yāgāt svargo bhavati (A 2099.12). He also glosses it as svargasyotpattim (A 375.9) and phalasya ... nis .pattih. (A 375.8-9). On the other hand he interprets the same yajeta as yāgena svargam. kuryāt (A 2106.17) and yāgena svargam. bhāvayet (A 2114.7).