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Passages where āyatana occurs literally — in the original, and, where a German translation of the same lines exists, in German.

• Āyurveda · Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasūtra · Sanskrit

  nimitta-hetv-āyatana-pratyayotthāna-kāraṇaiḥ | nidānam āhuḥ paryāyaiḥ prāg-rūpaṃ yena lakṣyate || 3 ||

• Pāli commentaries · mahāvaggaṭṭhakathā · Pāli

  yāvatā ariyaṃ āyatana nti yattakaṃ ariyakamanussānaṃ osaraṇaṭṭhānaṃ nāma atthi| yāvatā vaṇippatho ti yattakaṃ vāṇijānaṃ ābhatabhaṇḍassa rāsivaseneva kayavikkayaṭṭhānaṃ nāma, vāṇijānaṃ vasanaṭṭhānaṃ vā atthi| idaṃ agganagara nti tesaṃ ariyāyatanavaṇippathānaṃ idaṃ agganagaraṃ jeṭṭhakaṃ pāmokkhaṃ bhavissatīti| puṭabhedana nti bhaṇḍapuṭabhedanaṭṭhānaṃ, bhaṇḍabhaṇḍikānaṃ mocanaṭṭhānanti vuttaṃ hoti| sakalajambudīpe aladdhabhaṇḍampi hi idheva labhissanti, aññattha vikkayena agacchantampi ca idheva gamissati| tasmā idheva puṭaṃ bhindissantīti attho| catūsu hi dvāresu cattāri sabhāyaṃ ekanti evaṃ div

• Logic & epistemology · Hetubinduṭīkāloka (subcommentary on Arcaṭa's Hetubinduṭīkā on Dharmakīrti's Hetubindu) · Sanskrit

  ārya 4 jñānaṃ tanvaṃtīti āyatanā ni | cakṣurādīni [149 . 3] ca tāny āyatanāni ceti tathā | antarvyāptivādinopy asya mate pramāṇasiddhasyaiva dharmitvaṃ vācyam anyathāntarvyāptir asamarthitā syāt | tataś cakṣurādyāyatanānām amīṣāṃ pramāṇasiddhānām iti draṣṭavyam |

• Tipiṭaka · 3 Āyatanayamaka · Pāli

  Na manāyatanaṁ na mano? Na dhammo na dhammāyatanaṁ? Na dhammāyatanaṁ na dhammo? 3.1.1.2. Padasodhanamūlacakkavāra 3.1.1.2.1. Anuloma Cakkhu cakkhāyatanaṁ? Āyatanā sotāyatanaṁ? Cakkhu cakkhāyatanaṁ? Āyatanā ghānāyatanaṁ? Cakkhu cakkhāyatanaṁ? Āyatanā jivhāyatanaṁ? …pe… Cakkhu cakkhāyatanaṁ? Āyatanā dhammāyatanaṁ? Sotaṁ sotāyatanaṁ? Āyatanā cakkhāyatanaṁ? Sotaṁ sotāyatanaṁ? Āyatanā ghānāyatanaṁ? …pe… Sotaṁ sotāyatanaṁ? Āyatanā dhammāyatanaṁ? Ghānaṁ ghānāyatanaṁ? Āyatanā cakkhāyatanaṁ? …pe… Ghānaṁ ghānāyatanaṁ? Āyatanā dhammāyatanaṁ? …pe… Dhammo dhammāyatanaṁ? Āyatanā cakkhāyatanaṁ? Dhammo dhammāyatanaṁ? Āyatanā sotāyatanaṁ? …pe… Dhammo dhammāyatanaṁ? Āyatanā manāyatanaṁ? (Cakkaṁ …

• Daoism · The Texts of Tâoism II: Kwang-dze XVIII–XXXIII, T‘ai-shang u. a. (SBE 40) · English

  That * There seems to underlie this statement the Tdoist dogma about the regulation of the ‘ breath,’ as conducive to long life and mental cultivation. ® Probably what in Buddhist literature are called ‘ the Six En¬ trances {'^ /A.)/ what Mayers denominates ‘ The Six Organs of Admittance, or Bodily Sensations,’ the Sha(/ayatana, the eye, ear, nose, mouth, body, and mind,—one of the twelve Nidanas in the Buddhist system. the great forests, the heights and hills, are pleasant to men, is because their spirits cannot overcome (those distracting influences).

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