Eight More Syllable-Gates
The list passes its midpoint: Stha, Ja, Śca, Ṭha, Śa, Kha, Kṣa, and Sta each open their own named gate of perfect wisdom.
From Stha to Sta
「……唱娑他字時，入般若波羅蜜門，名真如藏遍平等；唱社字時，入般若波羅蜜門，名入世間海清淨；唱室者字時，入般若波羅蜜門，名一切諸佛正念莊嚴；唱拕字時，入般若波羅蜜門，名觀察圓滿法聚；唱奢字時，入般若波羅蜜門，名一切諸佛教授輪光；唱佉字時，入般若波羅蜜門，名淨修因地現前智藏；唱叉字時，入般若波羅蜜門，名息諸業海藏蘊；唱娑多字時，入般若波羅蜜門，名蠲諸惑障開淨光明；……」
"… Reciting the letters Stha, he enters the prajñā-pāramitā gate named the treasury of suchness, universally equal. Reciting the letter Ja, he enters the prajñā-pāramitā gate named entering the ocean of the world, purified. Reciting the letters Śca, he enters the prajñā-pāramitā gate named every buddha's own right mindfulness, adorned. Reciting the letter Ṭha, he enters the prajñā-pāramitā gate named contemplating the full accumulation of Dharma. Reciting the letter Śa, he enters the prajñā-pāramitā gate named every buddha's own wheel of instruction and light. Reciting the letter Kha, he enters the prajñā-pāramitā gate named purely cultivating the causal ground, the treasury of wisdom manifest. Reciting the letter Kṣa, he enters the prajñā-pāramitā gate named quelling the ocean-treasury aggregate of every karma. Reciting the letters Sta, he enters the prajñā-pāramitā gate named clearing away every afflictive obstruction, opening pure light … [the list continues]"
Several items in this stretch are compound syllables rather than single letters — Stha, Śca, Sta — a feature of the arapacana syllabary's own later members, which combine consonant clusters not otherwise represented as single characters. The gate-names themselves grow correspondingly more explicit about buddhas and awakening directly (the treasury of suchness, every buddha's own right mindfulness), suggesting the list's own progression moves from more abstract qualities toward increasingly concrete buddha-imagery as it continues.
Part 228 In Progress
Twenty-six of forty-two syllable-gates are now complete. The list continues in Part 229.
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