The Catu-Bhanavara-Pali (critical study)
by Moumita Dutta Banik | 2017 | 50,922 words
This study deals with the Catu-Bhanavara-Pali, (lit. “Text of the Four Recitals”) which in Buddhism is popularly known as “The Book of Protection”. This text, in the Pali language, represents a recital of the Dhamma meant for protection and deliverance from evil and sorrows as well as promoting welfare and well-being. The spreading time of Catubhan...
(4) The Dvattimsakara
Dvattimsakara[1] refers to Meditation on the 32 types of bodily impurities–There are in this body head–hairs, furs, nail, teeth, skin, flesh, sinuous, bones, marrow, kidney, heart, liver, pleura, spleen, longs, intestines, intestinal tract, stomach, faces, bile, phelgm, pus, blood, sweat, fat, tears, grease, saliva, nasal, mucus, synovlum (oil lubricating the joints), urine and brain in the skull.
The recitation of this Paritta Sutta brings about a filteration of the 32 bodily impurities and keeping our body and mind pure and fit. The practice of this Sutta helps in keeping away the sensual pleasure’s and other material’s expectations thus purifying our mind and preparing it for meditation and thus freeing the soul from the cycle of rebirth.
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
Khuddaka-patha. No.3, cf. D.ii, 293; 1, 57; iii) 90, Also see below Girimandaan sutta 15.